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forbearance
in
Jane Eyre
(Edited)

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. 67.1

forbearance = 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. 278.5

forbearing = patient and tolerant
"But why are you come?" I could not forbear saying.
p. 436.2

forbear = 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. 451.8

forbear = 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. 459.1

forbearing = 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)

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(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

forbearance in Jane Eyre (Edited)

forbearance
in
Jane Eyre
(Edited)