Both Uses

forbearance
in
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
(Edited)

The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business.
p. 25.3 *

forbearance = good natured tolerance and restraint
"If he be like to die, he had better do it, and
decrease the surplus population."
Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by
the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.
"Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is."
p. 74.3

forbear = stop

Definitions:

(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