forbear
verb (used with object)
to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
was forbearing
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past progressiveof forbear.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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I grasped it and pressed it hard—the first I had touched in sentiment for many a day; and I was loth to let it go, but he was forbearing.
From Bolanyo by Opie Percival Read
I have proof of them, undoubted, conclusive, and had at the time they were first made! but you had been cherished beneath my roof, had broken of my bread, and I was forbearing!
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 by Various
Nevertheless, she was forbearing if not loving, and the people said rightly when they said she was admirable.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various
I never was forbearing with a debtor, that I didn't get chiselled this way.
From Round the Block by John Bell Bouton
It would have been best to have vented her ill-humour upon Terence: who was forbearing towards his mother.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
