forbearance

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The action of forbearing (“abstaining or refraining from doing something”); (countable) an instance of this.

   “Tut, tut, here is a mannerly forbearance: / The truth appeares ſo naked on my ſide, / That any purblind eye may find it out.”

2. isim The action of refraining from enforcing something which is due (such as a debt or obligation) or a right which one has; (countable) an instance of this.

   “It is neceſſary that there ſhould be a ſtated Rate of Intereſt, that in Debts and Forbearances, vvhere Contract has not ſetled it betvveen the Parties, the Lavv might give a Rule, and Courts of Judicature might knovv vvhat Damages to allovv: […]”

3. isim Restraint and tolerance under provocation; patient self-control; indulgence, lenity.

   “If I have little, others have leſſe; If I feele paine, ſome others, torture: If their ſufferings be juſt, my forbearances are mercifull; my proviſions, to theirs liberall: […]”