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Webster 1913 Edition
Forbearance
For-bear′ance
,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.