forbearance

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /fəˈbɛːɹ(ə)n(t)s/|/fɔː-/    美 /fəɹˈbɛɹən(t)s/|/fɔɹ-/|/foːˈbeəɹən(t)s/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The action of forbearing (“abstaining or refraining from doing something”); (countable) an instance of this. uncountable
    — Tut, tut, here is a mannerly forbearance: / The truth appeares ſo naked on my ſide, / That any purblind eye may find it out.
  2. The action of forbearing (“abstaining or refraining from doing something”); (countable) an instance of this.; 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. uncountable
    — 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. The action of forbearing (“abstaining or refraining from doing something”); (countable) an instance of this.; Restraint and tolerance under provocation; patient self-control; indulgence, lenity. uncountable
    — 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: […]

词形变化

forbearances plural

词汇关系

衍生词
forbearance money unforbearance
相关词
forbear forbearant forgiveness

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Germanic *fra-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
Proto-Germanic *beraną
Proto-Germanic *fraberaną
Old English forberan
Middle English forberen
English forbear
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -iader.
Old French -ancebor.
Middle English -aunce
English -ance
English forbearance
From forbear (“to keep away from, avoid”) + -ance (suffix forming nouns indicating conditions or states).
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