Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by patience and indulgence; long-suffering: as, a forbearing temper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long-suffering.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Characterized by
patience andindulgence ;long-suffering : as, a forbearing temper. - verb Present participle of
forbear .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment
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Examples
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Generous, too, he appeared to her, in forbearing to apply to Sir Hugh, without her permission; disinterested, in declaring he did not wish for her hand without her heart: and noble, in not seeking her in a clandestine manner, but referring every thing to
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By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, Prov. xxv.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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15 By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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So that each, having only their own private injuries to resent, felt free in forbearing.
The Hidden Hand 1888
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I shall not enter into his literary quarrels further than to say that he seems to me, on the whole, to have been forbearing, which is the more striking as he tells us repeatedly that he was naturally vindictive.
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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When reading about Patience in the Guide, His Holiness spoke of a man he met in Northern Ireland who had been shot and blinded who, completely without animosity to his assailant, displayed the kind of forbearing patience to which Shantideva refers.
Shantideva's Compendium of Precepts (Laptu) and A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (Chod-jug 2010
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When reading about Patience in the Guide, His Holiness spoke of a man he met in Northern Ireland who had been shot and blinded who, completely without animosity to his assailant, displayed the kind of forbearing patience to which Shantideva refers.
Shantideva's Compendium of Precepts (Laptu) and A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (Chod-j 2010
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When reading about Patience in the Guide, His Holiness spoke of a man he met in Northern Ireland who had been shot and blinded who, completely without animosity to his assailant, displayed the kind of forbearing patience to which Shantideva refers.
Shantideva's Compendium of Precepts (Laptu) and A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (Chod-jug 2010
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When reading about Patience in the Guide, His Holiness spoke of a man he met in Northern Ireland who had been shot and blinded who, completely without animosity to his assailant, displayed the kind of forbearing patience to which Shantideva refers.
Shantideva's Compendium of Precepts (Laptu) and A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (Chod-j 2010
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However, Mr Harvie has taken issue with criticism of himself over his constant use of his Blackberry to update his Twitter page during the evening by Mr Scott, who described the Prime Minister as "forbearing" about the "tweeting", and later by social etiquette guru Peter York who wrote in The Scotsman that Mr Harvie was "guilty of the worst kind of behaviour".
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