a. [f. as prec. + -ANT.] Forbearing, indulgent, patient.
1642. R. Harris, Serm. Ps. x. 14, 17, p. 32. God is Wisdome it selfe; and therefore forbearant.
1830. Examiner, 419/2. The temper of George IV may have been forbearant.
1859. Smiles, Self-Help, xii. (1860), 342. There are, no doubt, a few strong tolerant minds which can bear with defects and angularities of manner, and look only to the more genuine qualities; but the world at large is not so forbearant, and cannot help forming its judgments and likings mainly according to outward conduct.
Hence Forbearantly adv.
1855. in Ogilvie, Suppl., whence in mod. Dicts.
