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forbearance 音标拼音: [fɔrb'ɛrəns] n. 节制,自制,忍耐 节制,自制,忍耐 forbearance n 1: good- natured tolerance of delay or incompetence [ synonym: { patience}, { forbearance}, { longanimity}] [ ant: { impatience}] 2: a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting; " his forbearance to reply was alarming" Forbearance \ For* bear" ance\, n. The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience. [ 1913 Webster] He soon shall find Forbearance no acquittance ere day end. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward offenders or enemies; long- suffering. [ 1913 Webster] Have a continent forbearance, till the speed of his rage goes slower. -- Shak. Syn: Abstinence; refraining; lenity; mildness. [ 1913 Webster] 132 Moby Thesaurus words for " forbearance": 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, zigzagFORBEARANCE, contracts. The act by which a creditor waits for the payment of the debt due him by the debtor, after it has become due. 2. When the creditor agrees to forbear with his debtor, this is a sufficient consideration to support an assumpsit made by the debtor. 4 John. R. 237; 2. Nott & McCord, 133; 2 Binn. R. 510; Com. Dig. Action upon the case upon assumpsit, B 1; Dane' s Ab. Index, h. t.; 1 Leigh' s N. P. 31; 1 Penna. R. 385; 4 Wash. C. C. R. 148; 5 Rawle' s R. 69. 3. The forbearance must be of some right which can be enforces with effect against the party forborne; if it cannot be so enforced by the party forbearing, he has sustained no detriment, and the party forborne has derived no benefit. 4 East, 455 5 B. & Ald. 123. See 1 B. & A. 605 Burge on Sur. 12, 13. Vide Giving time.
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