[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. FORBEAR.

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c. 1300.  K. Alis., 3826.

        There was yeve no forberyng;
Bytweone favasour and kyng.

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13[?].  Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS., XXXII. 776.

        Þe furste is: worschupe þou folly
fflesch-fadur and modur and þi gostly,
And þat in two Maner of þinges:
In boxumnesse and for-berynges.

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c. 1440.  Hylton, Scala Perf. (W. de W., 1494), I. lxxxi. What is synne but a wanting or a forberyng of good.

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1529.  Supplic. to King, 41. Forbearinge of bodely workes & kepinge ydle holy dayes.

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1533.  More, Apol., xii. 91 b. The leuyng out of felonye, sacrylege, & murder, is rather a token of wylynes then any forbering or fauour.

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1570.  Act 13 Eliz., c. 8 § 5. The Loan or forbearing of a hundred Pound for one Year.

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1641.  Hinde, J. Bruen, v. 16. Seeing Master Bruen infected with some popish errours and lyes, as the the forbearing of meats and drinks for religion and conscience sake, upon Fryday, and other dayes.

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1659.  Hammond, On Ps. x. 13, Paraphr. 55. This thy longanimity in forbearing of wicked men and permitting them to prosper, makes them blaspheme thee as one that either doth not see, or will never punish their violences.

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