forbearant

English

Etymology

From forbear +‎ -ant.

Adjective

forbearant (comparative more forbearant, superlative most forbearant)

1. forbearing
   • 1830, Thomas Carlyle, Johann Paul Friedrich Richter:

     Gay, gentle, frolicsome as a lamb, yet strong, forbearant and royally courageous as a lion, he worked along, amid the scouring of kettles, the hissing of frying-pans, the hum of his mother's wheel[.]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “forbearant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)