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Another word for forbearance

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forbearance

n.

restraint, self-control, tolerance; see abstinence, patience 1. See syn. study at patience.

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Another word for forbearance

noun

The capacity of enduring hardship or inconvenience without complaint:
long-suffering, patience, resignation, tolerance. See accept
Forbearing or lenient treatment:
charitableness, charity, indulgence, lenience, leniency, lenity, tolerance, toleration. See accept

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Disclosed it is invariably on the side of forbearance and of moderation.
He treated them all with forbearance, and it is said that when the correspondence of Cassius was brought him he burnt it without reading it.
He was merciful as a conqueror, stern as a disciplinarian, enterprising and wary as a general; while his courage, loyalty and forbearance seem to have been almost unsullied.
Yet positive repudiation is very rare though compromises are not uncommon, and a good many illogical arrangements are made that imply forbearance and amity.
Gibbon, however, regrets that the style of his pamphlet was too acrimonious; and this regret, considering his antagonist's slight claims to forbearance, is creditable to him.

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