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Definition of Forbearer
1. n. One who forbears.
Definition of Forbearer
1. Noun. One who forbears. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Forbearer
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forbearer
Literary usage of Forbearer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Kentucky Law Reporter by Kentucky Court of Appeals (1887)
""Section 4: Such excess of interest may lie recovered from the lender or forbearer,
although the payment thereof was made to his assignee. ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1878)
"3 The West, as a father, all goodnes doth bring, The East, a forbearer, no manner
of thing: The South, ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"... command of temper ; lenity ; delay of punishment ; mildness.
forbearer, (for-ba'-rcr) n. 5. An inter- mitter; intercepter of anything. ..."
4. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes by Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"The west as a father all goodness doth bring, The cast a forbearer no manner of
thing. TUSSER. Let servant be ready with ..."
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