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Willingness :: Willingness (n.) The quality or state of being willing; free choice or consent of the will; freedom from reluctance; readiness of the mind to do or forbear.

Connivance :: Connivance (n.) Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent or cooperation.

Arbitrary :: Arbitrary (a.) Despotic; absolute in power; bound by no law; harsh and unforbearing; tyrannical; as, an arbitrary prince or government..

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.

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.

Forbear :: Forbear (v. t.) To cease from bearing.

Omittance :: Omittance (n.) The act of omitting, or the state of being omitted; forbearance; neglect..

Oblige :: Oblige (v. t.) To constrain by physical, moral, or legal force; to put under obligation to do or forbear something..

Reward :: Reward (n.) Compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act..

Obligatory :: Obligatory (a.) Binding in law or conscience; imposing duty or obligation; requiring performance or forbearance of some act; -- often followed by on or upon; as, obedience is obligatory on a soldier..

Connivent :: Connivent (a.) Forbearing to see; designedly inattentive; as, connivent justice..

Forbearing :: Forbearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forbea.

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

Long-sufferance :: Long-sufferance (n.) Forbearance to punish or resent.

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..

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..

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

Restrain :: Restrain (v. t.) To withhold; to forbear.

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