forbearance

IPA: fɔrbˈɛrʌns

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

Examples of "forbearance" in Sentences

Great self-respect is as often manifested in forbearance as in resentment, said Herbert, soothingly.
It's important to continue making payments until your request for deferment or forbearance is granted.
We have bought into instant gratification for so long the concept of patience and forbearance is moribund.
The guards, too, treated the common criminals with a certain forbearance, even when they had to handle them roughly.
Northern speakers and writers; but the South, now that nothing can be gained by forbearance, is taking up the anti-English cry, and
Sometimes begging by good customers can win forbearance, but usually we are held to the written terms of the contract no matter how buried or convoluted the clause in question may be.
That complete dependence on each other, which insures habits of confidence and forbearance, is more easily acquired while the first dream of love lasts; and tastes and tempers amalgamate better in the end when there are no witnesses to observe that they do not quite fit at first.
_Which_, retaining its office as connective, may as an adjective accompany its noun; as, I craved his forbearance a little longer, _which forbearance_ he allowed me.] +A _Personal Pronoun_ is a pronoun that by its form denotes the speaker, the one spoken to, or the one spoken of+.