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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a forbearing, patient manner.

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  • adverb In a forbearing manner

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Examples

  • Well, dearest little woman, we must look forbearingly on it.

    Bleak House 2007

  • She waits forbearingly for me to remove my head from her web.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • Rather, they questioned us with it, and they only suggested, very forbearingly, that we should come to their house with them to see those laces, which of course were old laces; their house was quite near.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • She waits forbearingly for me to remove my head from her web.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • I determined to persist, as delicately and forbearingly as possible.

    The Woman in White 2003

  • "There's no help for it," said the man, forbearingly, but with little time to spare for her.

    Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

  • The important point here is not so much that the British treated him forbearingly as that he was always able to command publicity.

    Reflections on Gandhi 1949

  • But as even this frail compensation was denied me, I saw more clearly than ever how urgent it was for me to go forth resignedly where thousands of my fellow-toilers were struggling already, and, without looking back upon my brighter yesterday, press onward patiently and forbearingly in the course which an unexpected reverse had opened out for me.

    The Doctor's Daughter [pseud.] Vera

  • He forbearingly lowered his tail, composed his fur, and walked out of the cage and into the near-by woods as tamely as a house tabby out for a stroll.

    A Woman Tenderfoot Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

  • He sat at a table, talking too familiarly, or at least too forbearingly, with a rubicund, hard-faced man in shirt-sleeves standing at his elbow -- probably the head of the place, or his first aide; and he was buying obviously unnecessary glasses of things for two of the young creatures in short skirts -- Gertrudes and Adeles of that particular stratum, or Katies and Maggies, if preferred.

    On the Stairs Henry B. Fuller

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