All 6 Uses of
forbearance
in
Great Expectations
- Towards Mr. Pocket, as a grown-up infant with no notion of his own interests, they showed the complacent forbearance I had heard them express.†
Chpt 25
- Quite despairing of making my mind clear to Wemmick on this point, I forbore to try.†
Chpt 45
- ...and he seems to have felt pity for her, and forbearance towards her.
Chpt 50 *forbearance = patience or tolerance
- But reflecting, before I got into his room, which was at the back of the house and adjoined mine, that he and Startop had had a harder day than I, and were fatigued, I forbore.†
Chpt 54
- Forasmuch as they hang in my memory by only this one slender thread, I don't know what they did, except that they forbore to remove me.†
Chpt 57
- But, it was only the pleasanter to turn to Biddy and to Joe, whose great forbearance shone more brightly than before, if that could be, contrasted with this brazen pretender.†
Chpt 58
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.