forbearance

Etymology

From forbear + -ance.

noun

1. Patient self-control; restraint and tolerance under provocation.
   I WOULD HAVE been nine or ten when my mother chased me up a thorn tree with a ceremonial hippo-hide whip. What my crime was, I forget. My mother was, and remains, a woman of exceptional forbearance. I must have done something so obnoxious as to beggar belief. 3 August 2010, David Bennun, Tick Bite Fever, Random House, page 109
2. A refraining from the enforcement of something (as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due.