Antonyms for forbearance
fɔrˈbɛər ənsfor·bear·ance

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1. forbearance

   Mercy is the exercise of less severity than one deserves, or in a more extended sense, the granting of kindness or favor beyond what one may rightly claim. Grace is favor, kindness, or blessing shown to the undeserving; forgiveness, mercy, and pardon are exercised toward the ill-deserving. Pardon remits the outward penalty which the offender deserves; forgiveness dismisses resentment or displeasure from the heart of the one offended; mercy seeks the highest possible good of the offender. There may be mercy without pardon, as in the mitigation of sentence, or in all possible alleviation of necessary severity; there may be cases where pardon would not be mercy, since it would encourage to repetition of the offense, from which timely punishment might have saved. Mercy is also used in the wider sense of refraining from harshness or cruelty toward those who are in one's power without fault of their own; as, they besought the robber to have mercy. Clemency is a colder word than mercy, and without its religious associations, signifying mildness and moderation in the use of power where severity would have legal or military, rather than moral sanction; it often denotes a habitual mildness of disposition on the part of the powerful, and is matter rather of good nature or policy than of principle. Leniency or lenity denotes an easy-going avoidance of severity; these words are more general and less magisterial than clemency; we should speak of the leniency of a parent, the clemency of a conqueror. Compare PITY.

   Antonyms:
   cruelty, hardness, harshness, implacability, justice, penalty, punishment, revenge, rigor, severity, sternness, vengeance

   Synonyms:
   benevolence, benignity, blessing, clemency, compassion, favor, forgiveness, gentleness, grace, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercy, mildness, pardon, pardon, pity, tenderness

   Preposition:
   The mercy of God to or toward sinners; have mercy on or upon one.

Matched Categories

1. • Delay
   • Good Nature

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. patience, forbearance, longanimitynoun

   good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

   Synonyms:
   solitaire, patience, longanimity

2. forbearancenoun

   a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting

   "his forbearance to reply was alarming"

   Synonyms:
   patience, longanimity

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1. forbearancenoun

   Synonyms:
   withholding, refraining, long-suffering, patience, indulgence, toleration

How to use forbearance in a sentence?

1. Chief Technology Officer Stephen Bye:

   In the terms of Title II with the appropriate forbearance we made the point that we really don't see this as negative for the industry at all.

2. Quentin Crisp:

   Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

3. Thomas a Kempis:

   Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

4. Thomas a Kempis:

   Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will

5. Jay Foreman:

   (The) government needs to allow forbearance, amendments and restructuring of loans, so companies can make it through.

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