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Webster 1913 Edition


Forbearance

For-bear′ance

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Noun.
The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience.
He soon shall find
Forbearance
no acquittance ere day end.
Milton.
2.
The quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward offenders or enemies; long-suffering.
Syn. – Abstinence; refraining; lenity; mildness.

Webster 1828 Edition


Forbearance

FORBEARANCE

, n.
1.
The act of avoiding, shunning or omitting; either the cessation or intermission of an act commenced, or a withholding from beginning an act. Liberty is the power of doing or forbearing an action, according as the doing or forbearance has a preference in the mind. The forbearance of sin is followed with satisfaction of mind.
2.
Command of temper; restraint of passions.
3.
The exercise of patience; long suffering; indulgence towards those who injure us; lenity; delay of resentment or punishment.
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long suffering? Rom. 2.

Definition 2024


forbearance

forbearance

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Noun

forbearance (plural forbearances)

  1. Patient self-control; restraint and tolerance under provocation.
  2. A refraining from the enforcement of something (as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due.

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