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.
"Robert Burns"
Principal Shairp
She could picture Nola, little fashioned by nature or her life's experiences to bear grief, shuddering and sobbing alone in the dark, and her heart went out to her in all its generosity and large forgivingness.
"The Rustler of Wind River"
G. W. Ogden
There is a world of tenderness and forgivingness in the addition made to his first words in verse 4, 'Joseph, your brother.
"Expositions of Holy Scripture Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers"
Alexander Maclaren