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1
the capacity to endure what is difficult or disagreeable without complaining
- we thank you for your forbearance while we attend to the technical difficulties interrupting the TV program
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2
kind, gentle, or compassionate treatment especially towards someone who is undeserving of it
- the judge showed forbearance, and gave the teenaged first offender a suspended sentence
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- atrocity,
- barbarity,
- brutality,
- cruelty,
- sadism,
- savageness,
- savagery,
- truculence,
- viciousness,
- violence,
- wantonness
- cattiness,
- malevolence,
- malice,
- maliciousness,
- malignancy,
- malignity,
- meanness,
- nastiness,
- spite,
- spitefulness,
- spleen
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“Forbearance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forbearance. Accessed 26 Sep. 2021.
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The first known use of forbearance was in 1576
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