Synonyms:
forbearance
Meaning: a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting; "his forbearance to reply was alarming"
Synonyms:
patience, forbearance, longanimity
Meaning: good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Usage examples
Chivalrous loyalty and high forbearance
There was in them an undefinable appeal, whether for help or forbearance he could not tell.
Improper inspections resulted in high profits, for the army contractors made uniforms out of shoddy and leather accouterments from paper, filled the cores of hay bales with kale stocks and cheated the Government right and left without forbearance or conscience.
The situation of both was distressing; we were each of us a plague to the other; and I often wondered, that the forbearance and benignity of my master was not at length exhausted, and that he did not determine to thrust from him for ever so incessant an observer.