Forebears

Word FOREBEARS
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Definitions and meanings of "Forebears"

What do we mean by forebears?

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.

The feeling you get when on acid where you want to dock with you Jewish Russian friends. Urban Dictionary

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The word "forebears" in example sentences

We are the current stewards of the liberty that, thanks to our forebears, is our birthright as Americans. ❋ Unknown (2005)

As I waited to die, I passed the time by wondering if the hardships that modern hunters endure compare with what our forebears from the 19th century had to undergo. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Unlike the feudal Maxtone Grahams, she was less interested in forebears than what she called her afterbears. ❋ Unknown (1938)

Coursing through the veins of all those people, our forebears, is a blood that is fortified by a wealth of tradition that gives them outlook and confidence, gives them genius that is to be found nowhere else that I know of in the wide universe. ❋ Unknown (1928)

Rather, I'd like to share some chandelier-growing-out-of-ears family trivia; one of my forebears was a Welshman who had chandeliers growing out of his ears - metaphorically. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Our forebears were the forward-thinkers of their generation. ❋ Loren L. Coleman (2004)

Outrageous as that is, our forebears agreed to it, and I willingly abide by it. ❋ Hobb, Robin (1999)

In her dreams, she flew again, as she recalled her forebears had done. ❋ Hobb, Robin (1999)

The Indonesians recall forebears who freed themselves from colonial masters. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1994)

The foundation stone laid by our forebears is the rock upon which our encounter today must be based. ❋ Unknown (1991)

Happily for us, his forebears were an irrepressible band of eccentrics, each more outrageous than the next. ❋ Unknown (2011)

We are the children and grandchildren of our forebears, which is where all the guilt comes from. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is interesting to note that one of his forebears was a British brigadier who raised the siege of Delhi in 1857 - with a deserved reputation for great brutality that the current Nicholson will want to avoid. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Yet it would not surely be so if we were better aware how much of interest lies in the story of the lives and careers of some of the "forebears" of our English gentry. ❋ Unknown (1865)

Crikey, the man might as well be Shakespeare compared to these creative efforts of our esteemed "forebears". ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thus, it does more than simply level the playing field; it tilts things in favor of law enforcement, providing a monitoring system that surely would — were there really such a possibility — have our forebears spinning in their graves faster than a bit could travel from San Francisco to ... ❋ Unknown (2010)

Had my forebears been present the United States at the time of the Civil War, it is likely that the men among them would have fought for the North. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"[When I] was [tripping] I so [wanted] to forebear" ❋ Skurblurd (2016)

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