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Meanings of forbearing in English

Showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment.

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Usage of forbearing in English
1
But the human witnesses to the scene were less forbearing;-beingonly humans.
Further Adventures of Lad
2
But all through the evening he was affable and complaisant and forbearing.
The Fatal Glove
3
I smiled, a slow, superior smile, and spoke in a forbearing voice:-
The Lady of the Basement Flat
4
Be patient and forbearing and treat them with great love and kindness.
Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas
5
Christ is holy, meek, and forbearing; antichrist is wicked, outrageous, and exacting.
The Riches of Bunyan: Selected from His Works
6
I hungered to have a bite of dango, but went away forbearing.
Botchan (Master Darling)
7
Were they long-suffering, slow to wrath, and forbearing one to the other?
The Master-Christian
8
How had it been possible for her to be, comparatively, so forbearing?
Sir George Tressady — Volume II
9
He thought himself far more forbearing than the run of most.
Blood and Bone
10
The ladies were studiously forbearing in their treatment of Mrs. Chump.
Sandra Belloni — Volume 2
11
You have been very forbearing; you have done all I asked.
Ranching for Sylvia
12
Who will best capture Roy Hodgson's forbearing expression coming through the side door?
The Irish Times
13
But in thus forbearing I had to tolerate him, and hence this visit.
The Living Link: A Novel
14
Florence, you have the power to wound me, be forbearing in its exercise.
Ernest Maltravers — Volume 08
15
She spoke with the air of being a most kindly and forbearing wife.
A Court of Inquiry
16
Thus God teaches the necessity of cultivating a forbearing and a forgiving spirit.
The Child at Home: The Principles of Filial Duty, Familiarly Ill...
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