forbearance

From forbear +‎ -ance.

• (US) IPA^(key): /fɔɹˈbeɹəns/

forbearance (countable and uncountable, plural forbearances)

1. Patient self-control; restraint and tolerance under provocation.
   • 2010 August 3, David Bennun, Tick Bite Fever‎, Random House, page 109:

     I WOULD HAVE been nine or ten when my mother chased me up a thorn tree with a ceremonial hippo-hide whip. What my crime was, I forget. My mother was, and remains, a woman of exceptional forbearance. I must have done something so obnoxious as to beggar belief.

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

• patience
• restraint
• thole (obsolete, rare, or regional)

• forbear

• forbearance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• forbearance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• forbearance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• forbearance at OneLook Dictionary Search