All 3 Uses of
forbearance
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- —This is real Irish cream I take it, he said with forbearance.†
Chpt 10 *forbearance = refraining (holding back) from acting OR patience, tolerance, or self-control
- The young gentleman, his friend, overjoyed as he was at a passage that had late befallen him, could not forbear to tell it his nearest neighbour.†
Chpt 14forbear = refrain (hold back) from acting
- To those who create themselves wits at the cost of feminine delicacy (a habit of mind which he never did hold with) to them he would concede neither to bear the name nor to herit the tradition of a proper breeding: while for such that, having lost all forbearance, can lose no more, there remained the sharp antidote of experience to cause their insolency to beat a precipitate and inglorious retreat.†
Chpt 14forbearance = refraining (holding back) from acting OR patience, tolerance, or self-control
Definitions:
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(1)
(forbearance) patience, tolerance, or self-control
or:
refraining (holding back) from acting -- especially temporarily not collecting debt payments on a loanThe word, forbearance, is commonly used 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) 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