Adjective : a forgiving soul; a forgiving smile. ,The mountain is not forgiving of inexperienced climbers.    From Dictionary.com. 

The calmness and the overwhelming forgivingness is just not believiable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jenny Sanford on her husband: 'The ball is in his court'] Reference

This reconciliation on the fall of the sword was a token of the forgivingness of the North toward the chastened foes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference

We are bringing this humaneness, this forgivingness, saying to the people of New Orleans, you are with us during the times of apartheid.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 25, 2006] Reference

"President Mandela should have a good understanding of how political resentment is formed," he said, asking that Ratte's offence be seen as a political crime and treated with forgivingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

They won't have our nostalgia or fannish forgivingness should they investigate the old series and its perpetual lack of time and money - they'll expect the same high production standards as the new show.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recommended reading] Reference

These would eventually lead democratic industrial societies to return to the norms of “certain uncultured peoples whose lives are passed in peaceful occupations, ... honesty, truth - fulness, forgivingness, kindness.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [WAR AND MILITARISM] Reference

Time has given a strange humility and forgivingness to the woman who broke with her dearest friend, the unfortunate Duc de Montmorency, because he presumed to lift his eyes to the Queen, saying that she "could not receive pleasantly the regards which she had to share with the greatest princess in the world.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Women of the French Salons] Reference

Sir Charles, by his admirable address, made her tolerably easy by dinner-time, on the subject of her friends expected arrival: and she once owned, that she should be transported with joy to see her father, mother, and Jeronymo, could she assure herself, that she should see them with forgivingness in their countenance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference

The test of your being a forgiven man is your forgivingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms] Reference

As to what had taken place in the morning, he knew Clare's forgivingness, and despised him for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rough Shaking] Reference

David's commendation of them is a model of love which survives injuries, and of forgivingness which forgets them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference

Sir Wilton, notwithstanding, admired the forgivingness of his own disposition when he found himself wondering how.    From Wordnik.com.  [There & Back] Reference

What a superb and all-conquering confidence in Christ's depth of knowledge and forgivingness of knowledge that answer showed!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI] Reference

At the end of the drama Valentine displays the gentle forgivingness of disposition which we have already had reason to regard as one of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Shakespeare] Reference

The belief in God's loving forgivingness is the strongest motive to repentance, and the most melting argument to listen to the call to seek Him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah] Reference

In that prayer we learn, not only His infinite forgivingness for insults and unbelief levelled at Himself, but His exaltation as the Intercessor, whom the Father heareth always.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke] Reference

At the end of the drama Valentine displays the gentle forgivingness of disposition which we have already had reason to regard as one of Shakespeare's most marked characteristics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Shakespeare]

Mrs. Burns is said to have been a marvel of long-suffering and forgivingness; but the way she bore those wrongs must have touched her husband's better nature, and pierced him to the quick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Burns] Reference

Whatever is masculine in a man can be depicted superbly on the stage, but his feminine qualities -- passionate self-abandonment, facile forgivingness, self-pity -- do not show well in the dramatic struggle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Shakespeare] Reference

It is a faint analogy of, as it is an offshoot from, the divine pardon, but all the forgivingness of the most placable and long-suffering and gladly pardoning of men is but as earth to heaven compared with the greatness of His.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah] Reference

Yet she did it by erecting a monument to her forgetfulness, or forgivingness, in the shape of a college-preparatory school for Chinese boys, and is using part of her yearly indemnity fund to maintain it; and "Lest we forget" is written large upon its walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peking Dust] Reference

Whatever is masculine in a man can be depicted superbly on the stage, but his feminine qualities ” passionate self-abandonment, facile forgivingness, self-pity ” do not show well in the dramatic struggle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Shakespeare]

In Hamlet, if one may dare to say so, Shakespeare has discovered too much of himself: Hamlet is at one and the same time philosopher and poet, critic and courtier, lover and cynic -- the extremes that Shakespeare's intellect could cover -- and he fills every part so easily that he might almost be a bookish Admirable Crichton, a type of perfection rather than an individual man, were it not for his feminine gentleness and forgivingness of nature, and particularly for the brooding melancholy and disbelief which darkened Shakespeare's outlook at the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Shakespeare] Reference

If someone gets hurt along the way we ask for forgivingness, it's the best anyone can do. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference

Shakespeare has discovered too much of himself: Hamlet is at one and the same time philosopher and poet, critic and courtier, lover and cynic ” the extremes that Shakespeare's intellect could cover ” and he fills every part so easily that he might almost be a bookish Admirable Crichton, a type of perfection rather than an individual man, were it not for his feminine gentleness and forgivingness of nature, and particularly for the brooding melancholy and disbelief which darkened Shakespeare's outlook at the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Shakespeare]

Love, hu-manity, graciousness, benevolence, forgivingness, all the amiable qualities which can adorn the female mind, are in perfection, yours!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference