Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Forbearing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Forbearing.
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- adjective
forbearing
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Examples
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Is my net income just a "tax expenditure" that a forbearant omnipotent government allows me to foolishly waste on my own tawdry desires?
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Is my net income just a "tax expenditure" that a forbearant omnipotent government allows me to foolishly waste on my own tawdry desires?
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That so forbearant a people as Canadians have virtually destroyed two of their three parties is convincing evidence that they realize that that policy has failed.
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He is simply tolerant and forbearant, and refrains from judging harshly; and harsh judgments of others will almost invariably provoke harsh judgments of ourselves.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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The wise and forbearant man will restrain his desire to say a smart or severe thing at the expense of another's feeling; while the fool blurts out what he thinks, and will sacrifice his friend rather than his joke.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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The wise and forbearant man will restrain his desire to say a smart or severe thing at the expense of another's feeling; while the fool blurts out what he thinks, and will sacrifice his friend rather than his joke.
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He is simply tolerant and forbearant, and refrains from judging harshly; and harsh judgments of others will almost invariably provoke harsh judgments of ourselves.
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The brave man is generous and forbearant, never unforgiving and cruel.
Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858
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There are, no doubt, a few strong tolerant minds which can bear with defects and angularities of manner, and look only to the more genuine qualities; but the world at large is not so forbearant, and cannot help forming its judgments and likings mainly according to outward conduct.
Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858
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He will be forbearant of the weaknesses, the failings, and the errors, of those whose advantages in life have not been equal to his own.
Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858
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