[U] (formal) the quality of being patient and sympathetic towards other people, especially when they have done sth wrong:
The mortgage company had acted with forebearance, only taking them to court as a last resort.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is forbearance a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, forbearance is tagged as noun.
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