forbearance
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
forbearance (countable and uncountable, plural forbearances)
- Patient self-control; restraint and tolerance under provocation.
- 2010 August 3, David Bennun, Tick Bite Fever[1], Random House, page 109:
- 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.
- A refraining from the enforcement of something (as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due.
Synonyms
Related terms
Translations
restraint under provocation
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not enforcing something due
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Further reading
forbearance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “forbearance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “forbearance”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “forbearance”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
