Sentence example with the word 'forbearance'

forbearance

abandonment, clemency, dodge, feeling, grace, longanimity, overlooking, renouncement, shunting off, sympathy, zigzag

Definition n. good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

Last update: June 18, 2017


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The police officer showed forbearance when he let the young thief off with a warning.   [noun]

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Forbearance is one of Meeta's good qualities.   [Please select]

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Showing admirable forbearance, most of the detail of IBM products is held for the appendices.   [noun]

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He had been fond of believing, from the uncommon forbearance of the savages, that he was reserved as a prisoner to be delivered to Montcalm.   [noun]

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Gobryas answered, bowing low: "These men arrived this morning during the sacrifice bringing huge burdens of the purest gold to purchase your forbearance."   [noun]

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Things as strange as this had been within his knowledge, and proved to be of little harm--with forbearance.   [noun]

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But one thing I insist upon; and remember it is the condition of my forbearance.   [noun]

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Verily, forbearance is an American virtue.   [noun]

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Waverley, though confident that Fergus Mac-Ivor was incapable of such treachery, was by no means equally sure of the forbearance of his followers.   [noun]

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If not, and you appeal to my forbearance, and the mercy of those you have deeply injured, seat yourself, without a word, in that chair.   [noun]

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This is real Irish cream I take it, he said with forbearance.   [noun]

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