All 5 Uses
forbearance
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Volpone
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- CORB: 'Tis true, therefore forbear; I'll take my venture: Give me it again.†
Act 1forbear = refrain (hold back) from acting
- Forbear, foul ravisher,
Act 3 *
- 2 AVOC: Forbear.†
Act 4
- If these strange deeds May pass, most honour'd fathers"—I had much ado To forbear laughing.†
Act 5
- MOS: "A perfum'd box"—'Pray you forbear, You see I'm troubled—"made of an onyx"— LADY P: How!†
Act 5
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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(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