English

Adjective

forbearant ‎(comparative more forbearant, superlative most forbearant)

1. forbearing
   • 1830 Thomas Carlyle, Johann Paul Friedrich Richter

     Gay, gentle, frolicsome as a lamb, yet strong, forbearant and royally courageous as a lion, he worked along, amid the scouring of kettles, the hissing of frying-pans, the hum of his mother's wheel[.]