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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
forbearance
n 1: good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence [syn:
patience, forbearance, longanimity] [ant:
impatience]
2: a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges;
refraining from acting; "his forbearance to reply was
alarming"
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Forbearance \For*bear"ance\, n.
The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience.
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He soon shall find
Forbearance no acquittance ere day end. --Milton.
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2. The quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward
offenders or enemies; long-suffering.
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Have a continent forbearance, till the speed of his
rage goes slower. --Shak.
Syn: Abstinence; refraining; lenity; mildness.
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3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) |
FORBEARANCE, contracts. The act by which a creditor waits for the payment of
the debt due him by the debtor, after it has become due.
2. When the creditor agrees to forbear with his debtor, this is a
sufficient consideration to support an assumpsit made by the debtor. 4 John.
R. 237; 2. Nott & McCord, 133; 2 Binn. R. 510; Com. Dig. Action upon the
case upon assumpsit, B 1; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Leigh's N. P. 31; 1
Penna. R. 385; 4 Wash. C. C. R. 148; 5 Rawle's R. 69.
3. The forbearance must be of some right which can be enforces with
effect against the party forborne; if it cannot be so enforced by the party
forbearing, he has sustained no detriment, and the party forborne has
derived no benefit. 4 East, 455 5 B. & Ald. 123. See 1 B. & A. 605 Burge on
Sur. 12, 13. Vide Giving time.
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Thesaurus Results for forbearance:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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