forbearance
fawr be ruhns
- n good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
- n a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting
his forbearance to reply was alarming
- He needed six years and three schools to get through high school, and managed to graduate from Brown University only through the forbearance of a sympathetic dean.
- The older boy reads on with gentle forbearance.
- But when Rickey read to him from The Life of Christ, Jackie understood the wisdom and the necessity of forbearance.