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标 题: [转载] A.Word.A.Day--forbearance
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Tue May 9 14:44:15 2000), 转信
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forbearance (for-BAR-uhns) noun
1. The act of forbearing.
2. Tolerance and restraint in the face of provocation; patience.
3. The quality of being forbearing.
4. The act of a creditor who refrains from enforcing a debt when it
falls due.
[Middle English forberen, from Old English forberan, to endure.]
"Of course, justice has sometimes to be tempered by mercy and
forbearance."
Theodore Dalrymple, Second opinion, Spectator, Mar 25, 2000.
This week's theme: words with animals.
Errata: Ref. AWAD, March 5, 2000. The Nobel prize winning author's name
is spelled as Saul Bellow; pronunciation for the word blasphemy would be
(BLAS-fuh-mee). -Anu
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