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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Forbear \For*bear"\, n. [See {Fore}, and {Bear} to produce.]
An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural. [Scot.]
``Your forbears of old.'' --Sir W. Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Forbear \For*bear"\, v. i. [imp. {Forbore}({Forbare}, [Obs.]);
p. p. {Forborne}; p. pr & vb n. {Forbearing}.] [OE.
forberen AS forberan; pref. for- + beran to bear. See
{Bear} to support.]
1. To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall
I forbear? --1 Kinds
xxii. 6.
2. To refuse; to decline to give no heed.
Thou shalt speak my words unto them whether they
will hear, or whether they will forbear. --Ezek. ii
7.
3. To control one's self when provoked.
The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion
to forbear. --Cowper.
Both bear and forbear. --Old Proverb.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Forbear \For*bear"\, v. t.
1. To keep away from to avoid; to abstain from to give up
as to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety.
But let me that plunder forbear. --Shenstone.
The King In open battle or the tilting field Forbore
his own advantage. --Tennyson.
2. To treat with consideration or indulgence.
Forbearing one another in love. --Eph. iv 2.
3. To cease from bearing. [Obs.]
Whenas my womb her burden would forbear. --Spenser.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
forbear
n : a person from whom you are descended [syn: {forebear}]
v : not do something "He refrained from hitting him back" [syn:
{refrain}, {forebear}] [ant: {act}]
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