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Example sentences for "forbearance"

Lexicographically close words:
forays; forbad; forbade; forbare; forbear; forbeare; forbeareth; forbearing; forbears; forbede
  1. The only thing that will obtain for them anything like forbearance and support will be the very general dread of a dissolution, and the anxiety of members to stave it off.

  2. He thinks they don't take an independent line enough, and ominously hinted that if they meant to try to obtain the support or the forbearance of George Bentinck and Co.

  3. Julia's temper, which had never been good, grew gradually worse; and it required all a mother's forbearance to endure her continual waywardness and caprice.

  4. What I now see was only pity and kindness for others, I construed into causes for suspicion: what I now feel was forbearance and delicacy of feeling on your part, I called deceit.

  5. The informant of Louis had shaped the story under a flattering veil for his father; and the anxious son had heard nothing but of the insolence and scoffing speeches of the English Duke; and of the dignified forbearance of Ripperda.

  6. There was no time for further forbearance or parley.

  7. And when wine had unselfed my noble father, you received his passionate insults with forbearance and forgiveness!

  8. Their measures were marked with a fanatical virulence rarely exhibited, and the people were exasperated beyond forbearance .

  9. Both preferred to await the attack, rather than commence it; but in a trial of forbearance of this description, it may easily be supposed that the gentleman gained the victory.

  10. In that instant of uncertainty the white man's innate spirit of forbearance acted almost involuntarily.

  11. At the same time, it is essential that I should act with vigour because undue forbearance is always misinterpreted by savages to mean cowardice, and only precipitates the evils we seek to avoid.

  12. Ishmael Worth could very well afford to practice forbearance towards these ill-conditioned lads.

  13. Still, I should beg your forbearance as long as possible.

  14. At its commencement it was deemed proper to conduct it in a spirit of forbearance and liberality.

  15. It may be that the Mexican Government and people have misconstrued or misunderstood our forbearance and our objects in desiring to conclude an amicable adjustment of the existing differences between the two countries.

  16. The elders strove to hush his cries, and replied that 'all forbearance is at an end.

  17. But this generosity or forbearance was interrupted in the rein of Antiochus Epiphanes, who, alarmed by the report of insurrections, and harassed by the events of an unsuccessful war in Egypt, directed his angry passions against the Jews.

  18. The Mussulman instantly resumed his power, which for a time he appeared determined to exercise with a strong arm and with little forbearance towards the Franks, from the terror of whose might he had just escaped.

  19. The speech, the sentiments of Rienzi were rendered far more impressive by a manner of earnest and deep sincerity; and some of the Romans, despite their corruption, felt a momentary exultation in the forbearance of their chief.

  20. No man is entitled to consideration unless he has these three things, or at least one of them: the fear of God to restrain him from evil, forbearance with wicked men, and a good nature towards all.

  21. I pray God that thy life may be long, and thy forbearance be ever a noble example to which men may look up!

  22. The story is probably not altogether historical, but it shows the high ideal of Arab moralists as regards forbearance and gentleness.

  23. Of all things God loveth best forgiveness when one is able to inflict harm, and forbearance when one is angry.

  24. No; you must acknowledge, Miss Rolph, that I showed forbearance and consideration there, at least.

  25. And she was always kind to him, and showed that she appreciated his thoughtfulness and forbearance by many a grateful look and little speech.

  26. More can be done by amity and forbearance than by embittering and alienating.

  27. Love, sympathy, unselfishness and forbearance are not bad equivalents for breeding and etiquette, and have the additional advantage of meeting new and unusual conditions which sometimes occur to even the most conventional.

  28. Robin blessed him for his forbearance with the fresh warm blessing of an affectionate heart; and the blessing ascended to the Almighty's throne, although breathed into no mortal ear!

  29. Forbearance with all manner of weakness in doctrine and practise does not per se conflict with confessional Lutheranism.

  30. As mine iniquities waxed greater and greater, Thy forbearance towards me augmented, and as the fire of my rebelliousness grew fiercer, the more did Thy forgiveness and Thy grace seek to smother up its flame.

  31. He was not at all angry, when reminded of the duty of forbearance and love, whenever he perceived that the exhortation came from a heart that wished him well.

  32. Hence an ordinance of the Council was passed for the removal of the images in the most quiet way, with forbearance and care.

  33. With generous forbearance Zwingli answered him, but here again Conrad Schmied spoke out against fanaticism and a rage for destruction.

  34. The commands and institutions of Jesus are trampled under foot, and brotherly love and Christian forbearance are banished far from the soul of the bigot.

  35. For thereupon it became necessary to ignore conflict in the hinterland of some folding-doors, accompanied by sounds of forbearance and a high moral attitude.

  36. Some instances are here given of singular forbearance on their part.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forbearance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abeyance; abjuration; abnegation; acceptance; benevolence; cessation; charity; chastity; clemency; compassion; condolence; consideration; constraint; denial; discontinuance; disregard; dodge; duck; endurance; equivocation; escape; evasion; favor; feeling; forbearance; forestalling; forgiveness; fortitude; frugality; gentleness; grace; humanity; indulgence; kindness; laxness; leniency; magnanimity; mercifulness; mercy; mildness; mitigation; moderation; neutrality; pardon; pathos; patience; perseverance; pity; prevention; quarter; refraining; relief; relinquishment; renunciation; reprieve; resignation; restraint; shunning; slip; sobriety; softness; stoicism; sufferance; suspension; sympathy; temperance; tenderness; tolerance; waiver; zigzag