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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Forbear \For*bear"\, n. [See {Fore}, and {Bear} to produce.] An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural. [Scot.] ``Your forbears of old.'' --Sir W. Scott. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Forbear \For*bear"\, v. i. [imp. {Forbore}({Forbare}, [Obs.]); p. p. {Forborne}; p. pr & vb n. {Forbearing}.] [OE. forberen AS forberan; pref. for- + beran to bear. See {Bear} to support.] 1. To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay. Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? --1 Kinds xxii. 6. 2. To refuse; to decline to give no heed. Thou shalt speak my words unto them whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. --Ezek. ii 7. 3. To control one's self when provoked. The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear. --Cowper. Both bear and forbear. --Old Proverb. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Forbear \For*bear"\, v. t. 1. To keep away from to avoid; to abstain from to give up as to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety. But let me that plunder forbear. --Shenstone. The King In open battle or the tilting field Forbore his own advantage. --Tennyson. 2. To treat with consideration or indulgence. Forbearing one another in love. --Eph. iv 2. 3. To cease from bearing. [Obs.] Whenas my womb her burden would forbear. --Spenser. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: forbear n : a person from whom you are descended [syn: {forebear}] v : not do something "He refrained from hitting him back" [syn: {refrain}, {forebear}] [ant: {act}]
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