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
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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