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forbearance
noun
1 forbearance
Good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence.
synonyms: longanimity, patience.
Roget 740:
lenity,
lenience,
leniency;
moderation
etc.
174;
tolerance,
toleration;
mildness,
gentleness;
favor,
indulgence,
indulgency†;
clemency,
mercy,
forbearance,
quarter;
compassion
etc.
914.
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Roget 826:
inexcitability†,
imperturbability,
inirritability†;
even temper,
tranquil mind,
dispassion;
tolerance,
patience,
coolth [Coll.].
passiveness
etc.
(physical inertness)
172;
hebetude†,
hebetation†;
impassibility
etc.
(insensibility)
823;
stupefaction.
coolness,
calmness
etc.
adj.;
composure,
placidity,
indisturbance†,
imperturbation†,
sang froid [Fr.],
tranquility,
serenity;
quiet,
quietude;
peace of mind,
mental calmness.
staidness
etc.
adj.;
gravity,
sobriety,
Quakerism†;
philosophy,
equanimity,
stoicism,
command of temper;
self-possession,
self-control,
self-command,
self-restraint,
ice water in one's veins;
presence of mind.
submission
etc.
725;
resignation;
sufferance,
supportance†,
endurance,
longsufferance†,
forbearance;
longanimity†;
fortitude;
patience of Job,
patience on a monument"
[Twelfth Night],
patience 'sovereign o'er transmuted ill'"
[Johnson];
moderation;
repression of feelings,
subjugation of feeling;
restraint
etc.
751.
tranquillization
etc.
(moderation)
174†.
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Roget 914:
pity,
compassion,
commiseration;
bowels,
of compassion;
sympathy,
fellow-feeling,
tenderness,
yearning,
forbearance,
humanity,
mercy,
clemency;
leniency
etc.
(lenity)
740;
charity,
ruth,
long-suffering.
melting mood;
argumentum ad misericordiam [Lat.],
quarter,
grace,
locus paenitentiae [Lat.].
sympathizer;
advocate,
friend,
partisan,
patron,
wellwisher.
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Roget 918:
forgiveness,
pardon,
condonation,
grace,
remission,
absolution,
amnesty,
oblivion;
indulgence;
reprieve.
conciliation;
reconcilement;
reconciliation
etc.
(pacification)
723;
propitiation.
excuse,
exoneration,
quittance,
release,
indemnity;
bill of indemnity,
act of indemnity,
covenant of indemnity,
deed of indemnity;
exculpation
etc.
(acquittal)
970.
longanimity†,
placability;
amantium irae [Lat.];
locus paenitentiae [Lat.];
forbearance.
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Roget 953:
temperance,
moderation,
sobriety,
soberness.
forbearance,
abnegation;
self-denial,
self-restraint,
self-control
etc.
(resolution)
604.
frugality;
vegetarianism,
teetotalism,
total abstinence;
abstinence,
abstemiousness;
Encratism†,
prohibition;
system of Pythagoras,
system of Cornaro;
Pythagorism,
Stoicism.
vegetarian;
Pythagorean,
gymnosophist†.
teetotaler
etc.
958;
abstainer;
designated driver;
Encratite†,
fruitarian†,
hydropot†.
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Roget 678:
forbearance,
abstinence;
disuse;
relinquishment
etc.
782;
desuetude
etc.
(want of habit)
614;
disusage†.
Polish: cierpliwość
2 forbearance
A delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting.
Moby thesaurus: abandonment, abeyance, abjuration, abjurement, abnegation, acceptance, avoidance, avoiding reaction, benevolence, cessation, charitableness, charity, circumvention, clemency, clementness, cold storage, commiseration, compassion, condolence, condonation, constraint, defense mechanism, denial, desistance, discontinuance, disregard, dodge, duck, easiness, easygoingness, elusion, elusiveness, endurance, equivocation, escape, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, favor, feeling, forbearing, forbearingness, forestalling, forestallment, forgiveness, forgivingness, fortitude, frugality, generousness, gentleness, getting around, golden mean, grace, humaneness, humanity, indulgence, jink, kindness, laxness, lenience, leniency, lenientness, lenity, long-sufferance, long-suffering, longanimity, magnanimity, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, mitigation, moderateness, moderation, neutrality, nonexercise, nonintervention, noninvolvement, nothing in excess, overlooking, pardon, pathos, patience, patience of Job, patientness, permissiveness, perseverance, pity, prevention, quarter, refraining, relief, relinquishment, renouncement, renunciation, reprieve, resignation, restraint, ruth, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-mastery, self-pity, self-restraint, shunning, shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidetracking, slip, soberness, sobriety, softness, sophrosyne, stoicism, sufferance, suspension, sweet reasonableness, sympathy, temperance, temperateness, tenderness, the runaround, thoughtful, tolerance, toleration, uncomplainingness, unrevengefulness, waiting game, waiting it out, waiver, zigzag ... show more.
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