forbear

verb · nounB1

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verb

V_es/s

forbears

V_ing/Gerund

forbearing

V_ed/pp

forboreforborne

1.
(transitive)To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from.
2.
(intransitive)To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
3.
(intransitive)To refuse; to decline; to withsay; to unheed.
4.
(intransitive)To control oneself when provoked.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

forbears

1.
(alt of, alternative)Alternative spelling of forebear.
[1906] 2004, Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville, Ethel Wedgwood tr. Sirs, I am quite sure that the King of England's forbears rightly and justly lost the conquered lands that I hold …
One does not take one’s family name therefrom, and again the position of the mother in that group is determined through her father and his male forbears in turn; this too is a patrilineal group.

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afterbear

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From Middle English forberen, from Old English forberan, from Proto-Germanic *fraberaną (to hold back, endure); equivalent to for- + bear. Cognate with forbera to forfeit, verbërn (forbèeran), 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 to endure.