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Definition of Forbore
1. forbear [v] - See also: forbear
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forbore
Literary usage of Forbore
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Edward Hall Alderson, William Selwyn (1820)
"And we should be wanting in the discharge of our duty, if we forbore to express
our disapprobation of such language. It is necessary only to add, further, ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... all shall share destruction's shock;— Ho ! lead the captives to the block 1 '
But ill his provost could divine 87« His feelings, and forbore the sign. ..."
3. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1882)
"with my Family before he went ; he said he had a great deal of Business ; yet I
had some expectation of his coming, and forbore to ask my son to pray that ..."
4. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... side by side, Building for their sons the State, They forbore to break the
chain Checked by the owners' fierce disdain, Which bound the dusky tribe, ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"The subject was referred to the judges; but they, acting under the direction of
his Majesty, forbore from giving any opinion, and the question remains to ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Walter Vere Vaughan Williams (1877)
"... however, a surgeon forbore to send in his bill for * medicines and attendance
to a deceased patient in her lifetime under the expectation of a legacy; ..."
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