Forbearance

Definitions

1. Patient self-control; restraint and tolerance under provocation.
   countable, uncountable
2. A refraining from the enforcement of something (as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Though I would give⟳ no information, he discovered, through some of the other servants, both her place⟳ of residence, and the existence of the child. Still he didn’t molest her; for which forbearance she might thank⟳ his aversion, I suppose⟳.”

“I WOULD HAVE⟳ been nine or ten when my mother chased me up a thorn tree with a ceremonial hippo-hide whip. What my crime was, I forget⟳. My mother was, and remains, a woman of exceptional forbearance. I must have⟳ done something so obnoxious as to beggar belief.”

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