All 11 Uses of
forbearance
in
Mansfield Park
- …and it needed all the felicity of being again at home, and all the forbearance it could supply, to save Sir Thomas from anger on finding himself thus bewildered in his own house, making part of a ridiculous exhibition in the midst of theatrical nonsense…
Chpt 19forbearance = patience or tolerance
- Fanny could have said a great deal, but it was safer to say nothing... Miss Crawford's kind opinion of herself deserved at least a grateful forbearance, and...
Chpt 21forbearance = refraining
- …in the picture she had been forming of a future Thornton, to shut out the church, sink the clergyman, and see only the respectable, elegant, modernised, and occasional residence of a man of independent fortune, was considering Sir Thomas, with decided ill-will, as the destroyer of all this, and suffering the more from that involuntary forbearance which his character and manner commanded, and from not daring to relieve herself by a single attempt at throwing ridicule on his cause.
Chpt 25forbearance = restraint
- Her temper he had good reason to depend on and to praise. He had often seen it tried. Was there one of the family, excepting Edmund, who had not in some way or other continually exercised her patience and forbearance?
Chpt 30forbearance = restraint or self-control
- Fanny would rather have been silent; but being obliged to speak, she could not forbear, in justice to the aunt she loved best, from saying something in which the words "my aunt Norris" were distinguishable.
Chpt 32forbear = refrain
- The forbearance of her family on a point, respecting which she could be in no doubt of their wishes, might be their surest means of forwarding it.
Chpt 33forbearance = refraining
- Her uncle's kind expressions, however, and forbearing manner, were sensibly felt; and when she considered how much of the truth was unknown to him, she believed she had no right to wonder at the line of conduct he pursued.
Chpt 33forbearing = patient
- He pressed for the strictest forbearance and silence towards their niece; she not only promised, but did observe it.
Chpt 33forbearance = restraint
- Edmund saw weariness and distress in her face, and immediately resolved to forbear all farther discussion; and not even to mention the name of Crawford again, except as it might be connected with what must be agreeable to her.
Chpt 35 *forbear = refrain from
- Now, when she knew better how to be useful, and how to forbear, and when her mother could be no longer occupied by the incessant demands of a house full of little children, there would be leisure and inclination for every comfort, and they should soon be what mother and daughter ought to be to each other.
Chpt 37forbear = practice self-restraint
- More was not expected by one who, while seeing all the obligation and expediency of submission and forbearance, saw also with sympathetic acuteness of feeling all that must be hourly grating to a girl like Susan.
Chpt 40forbearance = restraint
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.