Definition of Forbearance

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Definition of Forbearance
	Forbearance The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience. The quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward offenders or enemies; long-suffering. Related Definitions: Act, Being, Enemies, Exercise, Forbearing, Indulgence, Long-Suffering, Of, Or, Patience, Quality, The, Toward, Waiting

Forbearance Quotations

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Mohandas Gandhi

Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it.
Martin Van Buren

Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
Ieyasu Tokugawa

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.
William Godwin

We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.
Robert Toombs

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.
Simon Raven

Forbearance Translations

forbearance in German is Stundung, Duldsamkeit
forbearance in Italian is tolleranza
forbearance in Latin is clementia
forbearance in Spanish is prorroga

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