What's the difference between forgave and forgive?
Forgave
Definition:
() imp. of Forgive.
(imp.) of Forgive
Example Sentences:
(1) I forgave him because I know for a fact that he wasn't in his right mind," she said.
(2) Expressing the belief that it was important for Christians to engage in "a sincere and rigorous dialogue" with atheists, Francis recalled Scalfari had asked him whether God forgave those "who do not believe and do not seek to believe".
(3) Rachel forgave them and then set up a "protectorate" for them where she lived until she died in 1994.
(4) So I forgave everyone who tried to keep me from dancing,’’ Joudeh says.
(5) Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite is probably paradigmatic: "I somehow forgave Bowie for the Placebo collaboration.
(6) She lives in Hawaii and long ago publicly identified herself as the victim and forgave Polanski, but said she and her family have to contend with pressure when he is in the news.
(7) Gaimer publicly forgave the director in 1997 after self-identifying as his victim and has since called for the case against him to be dismissed.
(8) Once close, Brown never forgave Mandelson for backing Tony Blair to be Labour leader when John Smith died in 1994; throughout a decade of New Labour infighting between Blairites and Brownites, they were at war with each other.
(9) Mr Agca spent 20 years in prison in Italy, where Pope John Paul II visited him in his cell in 1983 and forgave him.
(10) Both my kids joke that I’m a psycho mom, but they forgave me and we remain close.
(11) Copeland and Summers allegedly never forgave him (although a 2008 reunion tour, which raked in £108m, must have helped ease the tension somewhat).
(12) Heliodoro was one of the latter, an unreconstructed extremist who never forgave Juan Carlos for using the powers he received from General Francisco Franco in 1975 to usher in democracy.
(13) Nadine never forgave me for trying to introduce a moderate, alternative amendment to her own on counselling , which would have meant abortion providers were banned from offering counselling to women undecided as to their choice.
(14) Barry’s Washington was in Northeast and especially Ward 8, beyond the Anacostia river, where his constituents loved him and forgave him for all his trespasses, personal and political.
(15) John Paul met Agca in Italy's Rebibbia prison in 1983 and forgave him for the shooting.
(16) Frazier never forgave his rival for branding him "an Uncle Tom".
(17) And when someone sinned and confessed, he said, God not only forgave but forgot.
(18) Nahimana, who was honoured at The Hague with the Thinktank Africa award in 2004 and has represented Burundian civil society at the UN, publicly forgave his father's killer to demonstrate reconciliation.
(19) Benitez went on to win the Europa League for Chelsea in 2013, much to the delight of the club’s fans, who forgave him absolutely everything.
(20) "That day he came out of Robben Island and stood there and forgave everybody, I just thought: 'This is Jesus.'
Forgive
Definition:
(v. t.) To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.
(v. t.) To give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon; -- said in reference to the act forgiven.
(v. t.) To cease to feel resentment against, on account of wrong committed; to give up claim to requital from or retribution upon (an offender); to absolve; to pardon; -- said of the person offending.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the most interesting aspects of the shadow cabinet elections, not always readily interpreted because of the bizarre process of alliances of convenience, is whether his colleagues are ready to forgive and forget his long years as Brown's representative on earth.
(2) In 1999, Kamprad admitted his past involvement with Nazism in a book about his life and asked for forgiveness for his "stupidity."
(3) Perhaps he is instinctively more forgiving about avoiding tax, which some right-wingers always regard as an indecent affront, than the free use of public funds.
(4) He argues that whenever you have periods of crazy expansion of virtual credit, like today, you either have to have a safety valve of forgiveness, like in Mesopotamia where you wiped the tablets clean every seven years, or you have an outbreak of social violence so intense you rip society apart.
(5) The euro elite insists it is representing the interests of Portuguese or Irish taxpayers who have to pick up the bill for bailing out the feckless Greeks – or will be enraged by any debt forgiveness when they have been forced to swallow similar medicine.
(6) But Blair's address - "history will forgive us" - was a dubious exercise in group therapy: the cheers smacked of pathetic gratitude, as he piously pardoned the legislators, as well as himself, for the catastrophe of Iraq.
(7) Please, forgive me,” Choi Soon-sil, a cult leader’s daughter with a decades-long connection to Park, said through tears inside the Seoul prosecutor’s building, according to Yonhap news agency.
(8) Resisting dictatorships is more worthwhile than accepting them and thinking things will change by themselves.” Asked if the suffering for a majority of South Sudanese citizens could be stopped if Machar and his colleagues gave up the fight, the rebel leader says “giving up would be irresponsible” and that “history would not forgive him” for it.
(9) Women are forgiving if you can make it seem like this,” Rock Hard writes.
(10) I believe this has made it more possible to forgive.
(11) But we’ll know if things have changed when we can walk down the street after dark without being stopped.” Ron McBride, 48, was more forgiving.
(12) And it has proved too forgiving of welfare abuse, too obsessed with universal human rights, and too enthusiastic about immigration.
(13) Sometimes the public’s legitimate fears are exposed: in Colombia there’s no doubt the public felt uneasy about forgiving Farc for its bloody violence.
(14) The hardest thing is forgiving yourself, but it is necessary to do that.” As for the rest of the world and its concerns, Baez is willing to offer her personal support to causes that are particularly close to her heart, most notably the campaign against the death penalty in the United States.
(15) Yet in the wake of the second world war, West Germany managed to secure 15bn deutschmarks of debt forgiveness, in what became known as the London agreement.
(16) "Forgive me if I'm wrong, but does Crystal Palace-Spurs not count as a London derby?"
(17) When Margaret Thatcher died in April 2013, the Sheffield Star led with the headline: “We Will Never Forgive Her” .
(18) Both forgiveness and justice were related but distinct constructs.
(19) But the journalist Alexander Chancellor, a friend since Cambridge, agrees with Stoppard that despite sometimes sounding "over censorious, he is actually incredibly warm hearted and very forgiving.
(20) In return, the survivors were expected to offer forgiveness and the courts to impose lesser sentences, often resulting in immediate release from prison.