Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the longest single word currently in this dictionary, which gives it the highest ordinal total of any word entry here — again, a function of letter count rather than any claim about the weight of the concept itself. It combines "for-," an intensifying prefix, with "give," making its literal construction closer to "give completely" or "give up entirely" than to anything about fault or wrongdoing specifically — the everyday sense of pardoning an offense is a narrowing of that broader original meaning. Its length alone puts real distance between its ordinal value and every other word catalogued here.