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Forbear meaning
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.
Example sentences (10)
Our word “patient”, as it is used in our verse, means: “to be long spirited”, or “to forbear or longsuffering” or “long tempered”.
The forbear of the Shrewsbury Biscuit is the Shrewsbury Cake, about which records exist from as far back as the 17 century.
Leah's mother, Sarah Forbear, told the inquest her daughter had been excited at the prospect of seeing her friends.
The king, whose forbear Gustav III founded the Swedish Academy in 1786, announced the rare employment of his royal powers in a statement released by the Royal Court.
Dick Deadeye warns them to "forbear, nor carry out the scheme", but the joyous ship's company ignores him.
He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinion of others, to do so would be wise, or even right.
I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride.
The earth shall soon dissolve like snow, The sun forbear to shine; But God, who call'd me here below, Will be forever mine.
The underlying connotation of shinobi (忍) means "to steal away; to hide" and — by extension — "to forbear", hence its association with stealth and invisibility.
Yet I cannot forbear recurring to it personally, so deep is the impression it makes in my mind.