All 6 Uses

forbearance
in
Great Expectations
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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.†
p. 214.5

forbearance = refraining (holding back) from acting OR patience, tolerance, or self-control
Quite despairing of making my mind clear to Wemmick on this point, I forbore to try.†
p. 395.4

forbore = refrained (held back) from acting
...and he seems to have felt pity for her, and forbearance towards her.
p. 432.2 *

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.†
p. 470.9

forbore = refrained (held back) from acting
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.†
p. 492.7
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.†
p. 508.4

forbearance = refraining (holding back) from acting OR patience, tolerance, or self-control

Definitions:

(1) (forbearance)
patient tolerance or self-control; or holding back from taking action or enforcing a right

Today, the word, forbearance, is most commonly seen in the field of law to indicate that a legal right, claim or privilege is not being enforced.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
The form, forbears is typically a verb, but can be an alternate spelling of the noun forebears; i.e., ancestors. Note that these words put the emphasis on different syllables: for-BEARS v. FORE-bears