Meanings
adjectiveforbearant (comparative more forbearant, superlative most forbearant)
comparative more forbearant · superlative most forbearant
- forbearing; long-suffering
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[.]
1830, Thomas Carlyle, Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
- Proto-Indo-European*pér
- Proto-Indo-European*pró
- Proto-Indo-European*pro-
- Proto-Germanic*fra-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰer-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰéreti
- Proto-Germanic*beraną
- Proto-Germanic*fraberaną
- Old Englishforberan
- Middle Englishforberen
- Englishforbear
- Englishforbearant
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Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “forbearant,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forbearant.
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