Associations to the word «Forbearance»

Wiktionary

FORBEARANCE, noun. Patient self-control; restraint and tolerance under provocation.
FORBEARANCE, noun. A refraining from the enforcement of something (as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due.

Dictionary definition

FORBEARANCE, noun. Good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence.
FORBEARANCE, noun. A delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting; "his forbearance to reply was alarming".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats