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forbearance🔊

Patient self-control; restraint and tolerance under provocation.

💬 Quotations
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 which forbearance she might thank his aversion, I suppose.

A refraining from the enforcement of something (as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due.

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