Both Uses of
forbearance
in
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
- We are to be tested in our patience, our forbearance, our perseverance, our power to endure wrong...
Chpt 17 *forbearance = patience, tolerance, or self-control
- The outside world does not know, neither can it appreciate, the struggle that is constantly going on in the hearts of both the Southern white people and their former slaves to free themselves from racial prejudice; and while both races are thus struggling they should have the sympathy, the support, and the forbearance of the rest of the world.†
Chpt 17forbearance = refraining (holding back) from acting OR patience, tolerance, or self-control
Definition:
patience, tolerance, or self-control
or:
refraining (holding back) from acting -- especially temporarily not collecting debt payments on a loan
or:
refraining (holding back) from acting -- especially temporarily not collecting debt payments on a loan
The word, forbearance, is commonly used in the field of law to indicate that a legal right, claim or privilege is not being enforced.