Forbear
An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural.
To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
To refuse; to decline; to give no heed.
To control one's self when provoked.
To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety.
To treat with consideration or indulgence.
To cease from bearing.
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Forbear Quotations
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Robert Louis Stevenson
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
Samuel Johnson
The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
Samuel Smiles
Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
Edmund Waller
Forbear Translations
forbear in German is Vorfahr
forbear in Norwegian is unnlate
forbear in Spanish is antepasado
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