All 3 Uses of
forbearance
in
1776, by McCullough
- We have too long shown our forbearance and long-suffering...Our thunders must go forth.†
p. 16.4 *forbearance = refraining (holding back) from acting OR patience, tolerance, or self-control
- Gentlemen in other colonies have large plantations of slaves, and ...are accustomed, habituated to higher notions of themselves and the distinction between them and the common people than we are....I dread the consequences of this dissimilitude of character, and without the utmost caution on both sides, and the most considerate forbearance with one another and prudent condescension on both sides, they will certainly be fatal.†
p. 57.9
- An attack by Howe on Dorchester Heights had been his "utmost wish," and he could "scarce forbear lamenting the disappointment" he felt.†
p. 110.7forbear = refrain (hold back) from acting
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