Sample Sentences for
forbearance
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    I appreciate your forbearance.
    forbearance = patience or tolerance
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    The guards, too, treated the common criminals with a certain forbearance, even when they had to handle them roughly.  (source)
    forbearance = patience or self-control
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    He believed he had taxed the forbearance of the powers above to the extremity  (source)
    forbearance = tolerance
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    Take of my fruit for others or forbear,  (source)
    forbear = refrain (hold back)
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    The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business.  (source)
    forbearance = good natured tolerance and restraint
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    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
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    He was always gentle and forbearing, no matter how dull I might be, and believe me, my stupidity would often have exhausted the patience of Job.  (source)
    forbearing = patient
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    By that again I wist that it was Sir Launcelot, for ever he forbeareth me in every place, and showeth me great kindness; and of all knights, I out-take none, say what men will say, he beareth the flower of all chivalry, say it him whosomever will.†  (source)
    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."
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    Well, dearest little woman, we must look forbearingly on it.†  (source)
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    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)
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    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
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    His ease and cheerfulness rendered him a most agreeable addition to their evening party; and he bore with the ill-judged officiousness of the mother, and heard all her silly remarks with a forbearance and command of countenance particularly grateful to the daughter.  (source)
    forbearance = patient tolerance
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    I forbore, for the moment, to analyze this description further...  (source)
    forbore = refrained (held back) from acting
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