Forbears

Word FORBEARS
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Definitions and meanings of "Forbears"

What do we mean by forbears?

To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from.

To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.

To refuse; to decline; to withsay; to unheed.

To control oneself when provoked.

Putting up with one's parents. Urban Dictionary

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The word "forbears" in example sentences

What genuinely seems to set us apart from many of our forbears is the likelihood that we will remain mobile and vigorous well into our elder years, an advantage we can turn to constructive public purpose if we wish. ❋ Unknown (2007)

All his life long he was the singer of a parish -- the last of a long line of "forbears" who had used the ❋ G. H. Mair (1906)

Glenlivet and her daughters received the intelligence that the only son of the house was about to bring an English bride to the grey old Scotch mansion where so many generations of his "forbears" had lived and died. ❋ Unknown (1888)

Our pious and God-fearing "forbears," having secured personal and religious liberty, proceeded to inaugurate a most successful and remunerative trade in rum and slaves. ❋ Eliot Gregory (1884)

Up until September of 2010, these recordings were exclusively housed at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, but now anyone with a computer can log on and listen to their forbears express their heroic dreams for a bright new future. ❋ Cheryl Wills (2010)

"In the spring it is good to sleep with the open door," he began, his words sounding clear and flute-like and marked by haunting memories of the accents his forbears put into the tongue. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Who didn't come to America they way we or our forbears did. ❋ George Alexander (2011)

I had eight forbears at King's Mountain for the little set to with the Tories, and seven at the battle of the Cow Pens. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As the sea calls to the sailor, so calls the land to them; and, deep down in their aborted and decaying carcasses, they are stirred strangely by the peasant memories of their forbears who lived before cities were. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Two of them were sprawled upon Malemute Kid's bunk, singing chansons which their French forbears sang in the days when first they entered the Northwest-land and mated with its Indian women. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was not alone Molly Travis who pulled on gum boots, mackintosh, and straps; for the phantom hands of ten thousand forbears drew tight the buckles, just so as they squared her jaw and set her eyes with determination. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Steward, Kwaque, Cocky, and Scraps, and he ran with it as ancient forbears had ran with their own kind in the hunting. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Wherefore, probably, he practised his iron inhibition and preached it to others, and preferred women of his own type, who could shake free of this bestial and regrettable ancestral line and by discipline and control emphasize the wideness of the gulf that separated them from what their dim forbears had been. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Now his greatest virtue lay in this: he had not become hardened in the mould baked by his several forbears and into which he had been pressed by his mother's hands. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Over the course of the day: Parent: "[Have you done] your homework?" Child: "Yeah" PArent: "Did you eat a good breakfast?" Child: "Yeah" Parent: "Now don't be late home from school!" Child: "Nah" Parent: "Is [the Math] test today?" Child: "Dunno" Parent: "Well I hope you've done enough [studay] to get a good grade!" Child: "Maybe" The child showed remarkable forbearance. ❋ Dunners_boi (2010)

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