The act or capacity of bearing or enduring; tolerance, forbearance, or patient endurance.
From 'bear' (Old English 'beran') plus the suffix '-ance' (from Latin, indicating an action or state). This is an archaic or poetic formation in English.
The word 'bearance' is so archaic that most modern English speakers would never use it, but it preserves an older way of nominalization using '-ance' that survives in words like 'tolerance' and 'dominance.'
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