Etymology

forgivable

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Today it means: Able to be forgiven; worthy of forgiveness. Full definition →

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The story

From forgive + -able. Partially displaced non-native Middle English pardonable (“capable of being pardoned, forgivable”) from Old French pardonable (“forgivable”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.