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.†
Chpt 6 *
- 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.†
Chpt 21
- 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.†
Chpt 22
- I could not forbear saying.†
Chpt 33
- 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.†
Chpt 34
- 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.†
Chpt 34
- I told him to forbear question or remark; I desired him to leave me: I must and would be alone.†
Chpt 35
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.