Associations to the word «Forbearance»

Wiktionary

FORBEARANCE, noun. Patient self-control; restraint and tolerance under provocation.
FORBEARANCE, noun. A refraining from the enforcement of something (as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due.

Dictionary definition

FORBEARANCE, noun. Good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence.
FORBEARANCE, noun. A delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting; "his forbearance to reply was alarming".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King