forbearance

• Truth, on this subject, is best promoted, not by ill-natured crimination and rebuke, but by calm reason, generous candor, forbearance, and kindness There is another species of amusement, which a large portion of the religious world have been accustomed to put under the same condemnation as the preceding. —  A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
• Telling these things to Old Plain Talk, that man of some knowledge of the world shook his old head, and told China Aster that, though he hoped it might prove otherwise, yet it seemed to him that all he had communicated about Orchis worked together for bad omens as to his future forbearance--especially, he added with a grim sort of smile, in view of his joining the sect of Come-Outers; for, if some men knew what was their inmost natures, instead of coming out with it, they would try their best to keep it in, which, indeed, was the way with the prudent sort. —  The Confidence-Man
• General Grant acted with great forbearance, and endeavored to obtain from Secretary Stanton due recognition of his rightful authority as general commanding the army, but with no permanent effect. —  Forty-Six Years in the Army
• I would urge peace, forbearance, and long-suffering; and yet I cannot believe that we are called upon to submit without resistance to the horrible tyrannies to which we have been subjected for so many years After a time, one of the hymns of Marot, translated into Flemish, was sung with wonderful enthusiasm. —  The Golden Grasshopper A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham
• This would appear to introduce a new principle of forbearance, and if we refer to the case of the woman taken in adultery, where the legal penalty was death, we find that mercy, and not vengeance, is the principle on which our penal code ought to be based But leaving scriptural grounds and descending to those of expediency merely. —  Six Years in the Prisons of England

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