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forbearance

noun as in resisting, avoidance

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Example Sentences

Parenting a preschooler is hard (believe me, I know), and it takes a lot of time, energy, and forbearance to do it right.

Paul is right that we must deal with the Bundy crisis in the spirit of neighborly forbearance.

But selfies, like people, deserve our forgiveness, our forbearance, and our support.

My daughters treated their grandmother with infinite forbearance and affection.

But in the here and now of it, I ask for your patience, and forbearance, while I give it a shot.

And when wine had unselfed my noble father, you received his passionate insults with forbearance and forgiveness!

I endured his insults until the time came when further forbearance would have been a disgrace, and then I closed with him.

She did not expect much forbearance, but it never occurred to her that things could come to such a terrible pass.

I feel that I can, with confidence, rely upon the magnanimity and forbearance of my patrons, under this state of things.

Surely a spoiled old man-child like the crouching figure yonder would exhaust the forbearance of Jizo Sama himself!

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On this page you'll find 51 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to forbearance, such as: fortitude, self-control, abstinence, endurance, longanimity, and moderation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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