All 3 Uses
forbearance
in
As You Like It
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- Forbear, and eat no more.
Scene 2.6 *forbear = stop (refrain or hold back from acting)
- But forbear, I say; He dies that touches any of this fruit Till I and my affairs are answered.†
Scene 2.6forbear = refrain (hold back) from acting
- Then but forbear your food a little while, Whiles, like a doe, I go to find my fawn, And give it food.†
Scene 2.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(forbearance) patient tolerance or self-control; or holding back from taking action or enforcing a rightToday, 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.
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(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