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forbearance
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  • She recommended regulatory forbearance while the banks repair their balance sheets.
    forbearance = refraining (holding back) from acting
  • We are to be tested in our patience, our forbearance, our perseverance, our power to endure wrong, to withstand temptations, to economize, to acquire and use skill.  (source)
    forbearance = patience, tolerance, or self-control
  • This forbearance on his part on hot, cloudless days, if that is what it was and not simple laziness, was not good enough.  (source)
    forbearance = patience or tolerance
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  • His head turned toward the clearing with dreadful reluctance, as if he did not wish to look and yet could not forbear to.  (source)
    forbear = refrain (hold back) from doing so
  • We looked at each other, trembling on the brink of a quarrel, bitterness parting the threads of forbearance one by one,  (source)
    forbearance = refraining (holding back) from acting  OR  patience, tolerance, or self-control
  • It was the cherished belief of each that he did more than his share of the work, and neither forbore to speak this belief at every opportunity.  (source)
    forbore = refrained (held back) from acting
  • The gray-haired man turned his head again toward the girl, perhaps to show her how forbearing, even stoic, his countenance was.  (source)
    forbearing = tolerant and self-controlled
  • ALAS, said the king, that ever this unhappy war was begun; for ever Sir Launcelot forbeareth me in all places, and in likewise my kin, and that is seen well this day by my nephew Sir Gawaine.†  (source)
    forbeareth = refrains (holds back) from acting
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She forbeareth" in older English, today we say "She forbears."
  • Well, dearest little woman, we must look forbearingly on it.†  (source)
  • The particular policy of the national and of the State systems of finance might now and then not exactly coincide, and might require reciprocal forbearances.†  (source)
  • I'm sure the Congolese heard it every day for a hundred years while they had to forbear the Belgians.  (source)
    forbear = tolerate; or refrain from acting
  • He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.  (source)
    forbearance = self-control
  • I forbore, for the moment, to analyze this description further...  (source)
    forbore = refrained (held back) from acting
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