Though I would give no information, he discovered, through some of the other servants, both her place of residence, and the existence of the child. Still he didn’t molest her; for whichforbearance she might thank his aversion, I suppose.
2010 August 3, David Bennun,Tick Bite Fever[1],Random House, page109:
I WOULD HAVE been nine or ten when my mother chased me up a thorn tree with a ceremonial hippo-hide whip. What my crime was, I forget. My mother was, and remains, a woman of exceptionalforbearance. I must have done something so obnoxious as to beggar belief.
Arefraining from the enforcement of something (as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due.
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