forbearant
adjEtymology From forbear + -ant.
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forbearing; long-suffering
- Gay, gentle, frolicsome as a lamb, yet strong, forbearant and royally courageous as a lion, he worked along, amid the scouring of kettles, the hissing of frying-pans, the hum of his mother's wheel[.]1830, Thomas Carlyle, Johann Paul Friedrich Richter:
- Derived terms
- forbearantly