Definition of Forbears

1. Noun. (plural of forbear) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of forbear) ¹

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Definition of Forbears

1. forbear [v] - See also: forbear

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forbears

forb
forbad
forbade
forbar
forbare
forbathe
forbear
forbearance
forbearances
forbearant
forbeare
forbearer
forbearers
forbearing
forbearingly
forbears (current term)
forbeat
forbid
forbidal
forbidals
forbiddance
forbiddances
forbidden
forbidden fruit
forbidden fruit is the sweetest
forbiddenly
forbidder
forbidders
forbiddest
forbiddeth

Literary usage of Forbears

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Under the Editorial Supervision of Lyon edited by Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1915)
"He adheres to the religious faith of his distinguished forbears, ... He is of English ancestry, his paternal forbears settling in Connecticut in ..."

2. Notes on the Life of Noah Webster by Emily Ellsworth Fowler Ford, Fowler Ford, Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel (1912)
"CHAPTER VI REBECCA WEBSTER'S forbears ' FROM all that can be gathered, it is believed that the ancestors of the Greenleaf family 'were Huguenots who left ..."

3. The American in Holland: Sentimental Rambles in the Eleven Provinces of the by William Elliot Griffis (1907)
"... DOKKUM AND OUR PAGAN forbears \ AMONG the thousand things in nature and man to tell us that Friesland is our ancestors' home-land are the many originals ..."

4. The Law Relating to the Sale of Goods and Commercial Agency by Robert Campbell (1881)
"Where buyer forbears delivery at seller's request. If ho such market that by waiting until the goods were due he could have supplied himself more cheaply. ..."

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