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Forbearance vs Refraining - What's the difference?

forbearance | refraining | Synonyms |

As nouns the difference between forbearance and refraining

is that forbearance is patient self-control; restraint and tolerance under provocation while refraining is the act of one who refrains from doing something.

As a verb refraining is

present participle of refrain.

forbearance

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Patient self-control; restraint and tolerance under provocation.
  • A refraining from the enforcement of something (as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due.

    • Related terms

    * forbear

    Synonyms

    * patience * restraint

    External links

    * (wikipedia "forbearance") * * *

    refraining

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who refrains from doing something.
  • * 2005 , Daniel J. Hill, Divinity and Maximal Greatness (page 220)
    • Their refrainings from evil are members of at least one active causal chain