Forgiveness.

(Ang.-Sax., forgifenes.)

“Forgiveness to the injured doth belong,

But they neʹer pardon who have done the wrong.”

Dryden: Conquest of Granada, part ii. act i. 2.

“Proprium humāni generis, odisse quem laceris.”—Tacitus.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.