brooking
Allowing without complaint
Brooking is the present participle of brook, meaning to tolerate or endure something, almost always used in the negative: She's brooking no interference from the committee.
The word carries a formal or literary tone and implies firm refusal to accept opposition or contradiction: a leader brooking no dissent.
Persisting through time
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- abidingContinuing without change
- bearingPosture or orientation
- standingPosition, physical or social
withstanding · countenancing · permitting · allowing · accepting · stomaching · swallowing · entertaining
Calm during delays
- toleranceWillingness to accept difference
- leniencyMildness in punishment
- indulgenceYielding to desire
- clemencyMerciful treatment of offenders
mercy · restraint · self-control · long-suffering · sufferance · acquiescence · compliance · submission
enduring
Persisting through time
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- abidingContinuing without change
- bearingPosture or orientation
standing · withstanding · countenancing · permitting · allowing · accepting · stomaching · swallowing · entertaining · condoning
patience
Calm during delays
- toleranceWillingness to accept difference
- leniencyMildness in punishment
- indulgenceYielding to desire
clemency · mercy · restraint · self-control · long-suffering · sufferance · acquiescence · compliance · submission · yielding
brookingrefusing
Declining to accept
rejecting · forbidding · prohibiting · opposing · disallowing