All 7 Uses of
forbearance
in
Jane Eyre
- I heard her with wonder: I could not comprehend this doctrine of endurance; and still less could I understand or sympathise with the forbearance she expressed for her chastiser.
p. 67.1forbearance = patience or tolerance
- The day will close almost before you are aware it has begun; and you are indebted to no one for helping you to get rid of one vacant moment: you have had to seek no one's company, conversation, sympathy, forbearance; you have lived, in short, as an independent being ought to do.
p. 272.1
- I should not settle tamely down into being the forbearing party; I should assign you your share of labour, and compel you to accomplish it, or else it should be left undone: I should insist, also, on your keeping some of those drawling, half-insincere complaints hushed in your own breast.
p. 278.5forbearing = patient and tolerant
- "But why are you come?" I could not forbear saying.
p. 436.2forbear = refrain (hold back from)
- Don't cling so tenaciously to ties of the flesh; save your constancy and ardour for an adequate cause; forbear to waste them on trite transient objects.
p. 451.8forbear = refrain (hold back)
- I found him a very patient, very forbearing, and yet an exacting master: he expected me to do a great deal; and when I fulfilled his expectations, he, in his own way, fully testified his approbation.
p. 459.1forbearing = patient and tolerant
- I told him to forbear question or remark; I desired him to leave me: I must and would be alone.
p. 484.2 *forbear = refrain (hold back)
Definition:
patience, tolerance, or self-control
or:
refraining (holding back) from acting -- especially temporarily not collecting debt payments on a loan
or:
refraining (holding back) from acting -- especially temporarily not collecting debt payments on a loan
The word, forbearance, is commonly used in the field of law to indicate that a legal right, claim or privilege is not being enforced.