What is "forebearance"

Usage examples of "forebearance".

I formed the conclusion that while most mothers behaved with remarkable similarity toward their offspring, that is, with a certain baffled forebearance masking a persistent affection, this rule simply did not apply to my own mother.

For several hundred kzin years, the fittest of your species were those members with the wit or the forebearance to avoid fighting human beings.