OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 33871

forbearance

/fɔːˈbɛː.ɹən(t)s/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
templanza
Patient self-control; restraint and tolerance under provocation.
I WOULD HAVE been nine or ten when my mother chased me up a thorn tree with a ceremonial hippo-hide whip. What my crime was, I forget. My mother was, and remains, a woman of except…
Though I would give no information, he discovered, through some of the other servants, both her place of residence, and the existence of the child. Still he didn’t molest her; for…
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