forbearant
English
Adjective
forbearant (comparative more forbearant, superlative most forbearant)
- forbearing; long-suffering
- 1830, Thomas Carlyle, Johann Paul Friedrich Richter:
- 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[.]
References
- “forbearant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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