forbearance

forbearance has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 11.

Definitions

• n.. The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience.
• n.. The quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward offenders or enemies; long-suffering.
• n.. a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting; "his forbearance to reply was alarming"
• n.. good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence