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Forbearance :: Forbearance (n.) The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience.

Forbear :: Forbear (v. t.) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety..

Forbearant :: Forbearant (a.) Forbearing.

Abstinence :: Abstinence (n.) The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence..

Silence :: Silence (n.) Forbearance from, or absence of, speech; taciturnity; muteness..

Warrant :: Warrant (n.) To make secure; to give assurance against harm; to guarantee safety to; to give authority or power to do, or forbear to do, anything by which the person authorized is secured, or saved harmless, from any loss or damage by his action..

Truceless :: Truceless (a.) Without a truce; unforbearing.

Meek :: Meek (superl.) Mild of temper; not easily provoked or orritated; patient under injuries; not vain, or haughty, or resentful; forbearing; submissive..

Secrecy :: Secrecy (n.) The quality of being secretive; fidelity to a secret; forbearance of disclosure or discovery.

Promise :: Promise (a.) In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specified act; a declaration which gives to the person to whom it is made a right to expect or to claim the performance or forbearance of a specified act..

Wake :: Wake (n.) The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil..

Noncommittal :: Noncommittal (n.) A state of not being committed or pledged; forbearance or refusal to commit one's self. Also used adjectively.

Force :: Force (n.) To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor..

Forbear :: Forbear (v. i.) To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.

Foregoer :: Foregoer (n.) One who forbears to enjoy.

Help :: Help (v. t.) To forbear; to avoid.

Desist :: Desist (v. i.) To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from.

Engage :: Engage (v. t.) To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or promise..

Refrain :: Refrain (v. i.) To keep one's self from action or interference; to hold aloof; to forbear; to abstain.

Omit :: Omit (v. t.) To pass by; to forbear or fail to perform or to make use of; to leave undone; to neglect.

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