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"forgave" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it when you want to express that you have granted someone else's forgiveness. For example: "When I forgave my friend for lying to me, I felt a sense of relief."
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forgave
verb
Simple past tense of forgive
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"My brother said before he died that he forgave those who testified against him.
She forgave him, they worked it out, but she sadly died a few years later.
The Spurs fans had adored their young captain and never forgave him; he was racially abused, the victim of homophobia (there were rumours that he was gay, despite girlfriends and denials) and mocked for apparently breaking down on the pitch.
He never forgave her for turning him down, and refused thereafter to call her by her name.
Economically the realities of South Africa have barely changed and there are some people who are quite satisfied with the idea that, well you forgave us, now let's just march on into the sunset together without anything having to change.
Pulling out of both was problematic but my publisher forgave me and I'm still married, so no lasting damage was done.
Last year the Fund forgave the $82m the country owed it, some of which will be redirected towards improved irrigation.Cambodia is slowly but, it seems, surely dragging itself up from a very low base.
Smeared on the body, it forgave sins; taken in water, it helped digestive complaints.Sceptics were always trying to show how it was done, saying that the Ash was a pellet crushed between His fingers, or that the gold and silver ellipsoidal lingams (the Form of the Formless) that He coughed up at certain festivals were in fact hidden in His handkerchief.
Yet the king forgave the boy from Ashe House these indiscretions, which allowed his descendants to grow up in a palace where they live to this day.
He stuck a kitchen knife (or a pair of scissors, or a "three-inch dirty penknife") into the neck of his second wife, the second of six, all of whom loved and forgave him as long as their alimony was paid.
Social movements, such as unions and peasant groups, form its political base.Until this year such groups believed Mr Morales was on their side, and forgave his verbal snafus and missteps.
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