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Spare :: Spare (a.) To preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm; to show mercy to..

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

Patient :: Patient (a.) Forbearing; long-suffering.

Spare :: Spare (v. i.) To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.

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

Neglect :: Neglect (adv.) Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts..

Connive :: Connive (v. i.) To close the eyes upon a fault; to wink (at); to fail or forbear by intention to discover an act; to permit a proceeding, as if not aware of it; -- usually followed by at..

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

Forebear :: Forebear (n.) An ancestor. See Forbear.

Forbear :: Forbear (n.) An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural.

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..

Neuter :: Neuter (n.) A person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral.

Tolerant :: Tolerant (a.) Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; indulgent.

Quarantine :: Quarantine (n.) Specifically, the term, originally of forty days, during which a ship arriving in port, and suspected of being infected a malignant contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse with the shore; hence, such restraint or inhibition of intercourse; also, the place where infected or prohibited vessels are stationed..

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To wait; to attend; to forbear to act.

Indulgence :: Indulgence (n.) The act of indulging or humoring; the quality of being indulgent; forbearance of restrain or control.

Forbearer :: Forbearer (n.) One who forbears.

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

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..

Forbear :: Forbear (v. t.) To treat with consideration or indulgence.

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