All 8 Uses of
forbearance
in
Emma
- Perhaps she might have passed over more had his manners been flattering to Isabella's sister, but they were only those of a calmly kind brother and friend, without praise and without blindness; but hardly any degree of personal compliment could have made her regardless of that greatest fault of all in her eyes which he sometimes fell into, the want of respectful forbearance towards her father.†
Chpt 1.11-12
- —It had a high claim to forbearance.†
Chpt 1.11-12
- Her sensibilities, I suspect, are strong--and her temper excellent in its power of forbearance, patience, self-control; but it wants openness.
Chpt 2.15-16 *forbearance = patience, tolerance, or self-control
- If she is ill I should be sorry to do her injustice; but there are some traits in her character which make it difficult for me to speak of her with the forbearance I could wish.†
Chpt 2.17-18
- Every feeling was offended; and the forbearance of her outward submission left a heavy arrear due of secret severity in her reflections on the unmanageable goodwill of Mr. Weston's temper.†
Chpt 3.5-6
- I wish you could have heard her honouring your forbearance, in being able to pay her such attentions, as she was for ever receiving from yourself and your father, when her society must be so irksome.†
Chpt 3.7-8
- They spoke, therefore, of Mrs. Churchill's death with mutual forbearance.†
Chpt 3.9-10
- I must not quarrel with a spirit of forbearance which has been so richly extended towards myself; but, otherwise, I should loudly protest against the share of it which that woman has known.†
Chpt 3.13-14
Definition:
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(forbearance) patience, tolerance, or self-control
or:
refraining (holding back) from acting -- especially temporarily not collecting debt payments on a loaneditor's notes: The word, forbearance, is commonly used in the field of law to indicate that a legal right, claim or privilege is not being enforced.