All 3 Uses of
forbearance
in
Gone with the Wind
- She had the easily stirred passions of her Irish father and nothing except the thinnest veneer of her mother's unselfish and forbearing nature.†
Chpt 1.3 *forbearing = refraining (holding back) from acting
- She forbore to say anything as she looked at the two sheets but Ashley read her face.†
Chpt 5.51forbore = refrained (held back) from acting
- This worked great hardship and strained the tact and forbearance of the unrelated half of the town, for the India-Melanie feud made a rupture in practically every social organization.†
Chpt 5.55forbearance = refraining (holding back) from acting OR patience, tolerance, or self-control
Definitions:
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(1)
(forbearance) patience, tolerance, or self-control
or:
refraining (holding back) from acting -- especially temporarily not collecting debt payments on a loanThe word, forbearance, is commonly used 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) 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