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Definitions
a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting
Word origin
From forbear (“to keep away from, avoid”) + -ance (suffix forming nouns indicating conditions or states).
Used in a sentence
“Tut, tut, here is a mannerly forbearance: / The truth appeares ſo naked on my ſide, / That any purblind eye may find it out.”
“Then true nobleſſe vvould / Learne him forbearance from ſo foule a vvrong, / VVhat ſubject can giue ſentence on his King: […]”
“[…] Death denounc't that day, / VVhich he preſumes already vain and void, / Becauſe not yet inflicted, as he fear'd, / By ſome immediate ſtroak; but ſoon ſhall find / Forbearance no acquittance ere day end.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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