Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Endurance; patient suffering.
  • noun In machinery, a bearing.

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Examples

  • First people need to understand that time has no bearance on the process.

    The Reason for Conyers Dilemma 2008

  • She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the treasurer wept for their weeping; then the two brothers embraced and bade farewell and one said to the other, All this cometh of the malice of those traitresses, my mother and thy mother; and this is the reward of my forbearance towards thy mother and of thy for bearance towards my mother!

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • First people need to understand that time has no bearance on the process.

    Conyers Tells Rob Kall: Impeachment Not Off the Table; A You Tube Video 2008

  • Once you start recognizing the over-bearance of MIC in any administration it spells doomsday market pressures.

    Greenspan's Dark Legacy Unmasked 2007

  • You, I know, my Lucy, will admire me for my for-bearance.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • “You are not what I thought of you,” I cried, being vexed beyond bearance by such words, and feeling their gross injustice.

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

  • And then the cold grew intense beyond his bearance, and he reflected upon some method of escape if it were to secure him no more than exercise for warmth.

    Doom Castle Neil Munro

  • Consider that you are, all of you, men who can depend upon each other's probity and honour, and where these essentials are not wanting, surely in mere matters of business the rest may be palliated by mutual bearance and forbearance.

    A Publisher and His Friends Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1911

  • Mosquitoes tortured the whole party almost past bearance.

    Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

  • "You are not what I thought of you," I cried, being vexed beyond bearance by such words, and feeling their gross injustice.

    Erema — My Father's Sin 1862

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