All 9 Uses of
forbearance
in
Little Dorrit
- "You must have great patience," said Arthur Clennam, looking at him with some wonder, "great forbearance."
Chpt 1.10 *forbearance = patience, tolerance, or self-control
- You might be like me, my dear Frederick; you might be, if you chose!' and forbore, in the magnanimity of his strength, to press his fallen brother further.†
Chpt 1.19
- …satisfactory nature, accompanied with every prospect of complete success in life; but that the temporary inability of his employer to pay him his arrears of salary to that date (in which condition said employer had appealed to that generous forbearance in which he trusted he should never be wanting towards a fellow-creature), combined with the fraudulent conduct of a false friend and the present high price of provisions, had reduced him to the verge of ruin, unless he could by a…†
Chpt 1.22
- It was not exactly the word on Clennam's lips, but he forbore to interrupt his good-humoured friend.†
Chpt 1.23
- 'Don't distress yourself by worrying your mind about it,' he returned, with infinite forbearance.†
Chpt 1.31
- You must remember that your uncle's state requires—hum—great forbearance from us, great forbearance.'†
Chpt 2.5
- You must remember that your uncle's state requires—hum—great forbearance from us, great forbearance.'†
Chpt 2.5
- The topic was so disagreeable to him, and so put his usual liveliness to the rout, that Mrs Plornish forbore to press him further: the rather as the tea had been drawing for some time on the hob.†
Chpt 2.13
- Because such a declaration as Clennam's, made at such a time, would certainly draw down upon him a storm of animosity, rendering it impossible to calculate on forbearance in the creditors, or on unanimity among them; and exposing him a solitary target to a straggling cross-fire, which might bring him down from half-a-dozen quarters at once.†
Chpt 2.26
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.