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Definition of Forefathers
1. forefather [n] - See also: forefather
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forefathers
Literary usage of Forefathers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Holy-days and Holidays: A Treasury of Historical Material, Sermons in Full by Edward Mark Deems (1906)
"While it is in no state a legal holiday, forefathers' Day is, nevertheless, ...
But forefathers' Day has a broader and deeper significance than simply the ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"Diet. ; Morris's Troubles of our Catholic forefathers, iii. 3-7, 118, 315; Oliver's
Jesuit Collections, p. 106.] TC GRENE, MARTIX (1616-1667), Jesuit, ..."
3. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1900)
"CHAPTER III Why the Americans Display More Readiness and More Taste for General
Ideas Than Their forefathers, the English THE Deity does not regard the ..."
4. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1861)
"... my birthplace—my forefathers having fought for that glorious flag—to-day I
.... the glorious and great Constitution of our forefathers, phoenix-like, ..."
5. Memoirs, Official and Personal: With Sketches of Travels Among the Northern by Thomas Loraine McKenney (1846)
"THE MISTAKES OF OUR forefathers IN REGARD TO THE INDIANS, AND THE LESSON WE SHOULD
LEARN FROM THEM. Rapid settlement of the country—The Plymouth ..."
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