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Forbearant

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    forbearing; long-suffering

    "Gay, gentle, frolicsome as a lamb, yet strong, forbearant and royally courageous as a lion, he worked along, amid the scouring of kettles, the hissing of frying-pans, the hum of his mother's wheel[.]"

Etymology

From forbear + -ant.

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