Forbearance
[fɔː'beər(ə)ns] or [fɔr'bɛrəns]
Definition
(noun.) a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting; 'his forbearance to reply was alarming'.
Editor: Theresa--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience.
(n.) The quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward offenders or enemies; long-suffering.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Forbearing, shunning, abstinence, avoidance.[2]. Patience, lenity, indulgence, long suffering.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
The spirit of toleration shown when a man who knows, patiently listens to a fool who does not.
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Examples
- You must remember that your uncle's state requires--hum--great forbearance from us, great forbearance. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Attendance, forbearance, patience with Darcy, was injury to Wickham. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I thought it my duty to protest against Lady Glyde's unfavourable opinion of his lordship, and I did so, with becoming forbearance and respect. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- You have always treated me with the same delicacy and the same forbearance. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Was there one of the family, excepting Edmund, who had not in some way or other continually exercised her patience and forbearance? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He pressed for the strictest forbearance and silence towards their niece; she not only promised, but did observe it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- We call it Horse,' said Mr Podsnap, with forbearance. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Not one of your stiff-laced, moralising fathers, who preach chastity and forbearance to their children. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- We are Sir Percival's friends, and if generosity and forbearance can add to our regard for him, we ought to be Sir Percival's admirers as well. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But there my forbearance stopped. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- If not, and you appeal to my forbearance, and the mercy of those you have deeply injured, seat yourself, without a word, in that chair. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It had a high claim to forbearance. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Towards Mr. Pocket, as a grown-up infant with no notion of his own interests, they showed the complacent forbearance I had heard them express. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Miss Crawford's kind opinion of herself deserved at least a grateful forbearance, and she began to talk of something else. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- This appeared likely; for I was too shy, and too proud to ask for money: and Frederick Lamb encouraged me in this amiable forbearance! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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