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  • noun Plural form of forbear.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of forbear.

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Examples

  • What genuinely seems to set us apart from many of our forbears is the likelihood that we will remain mobile and vigorous well into our elder years, an advantage we can turn to constructive public purpose if we wish.

    Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generalization 2007

  • All his life long he was the singer of a parish -- the last of a long line of "forbears" who had used the

    English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge G. H. Mair 1906

  • Glenlivet and her daughters received the intelligence that the only son of the house was about to bring an English bride to the grey old Scotch mansion where so many generations of his "forbears" had lived and died.

    Fifty-Two Stories For Girls 1888

  • Our pious and God-fearing "forbears," having secured personal and religious liberty, proceeded to inaugurate a most successful and remunerative trade in rum and slaves.

    Worldly Ways and Byways Eliot Gregory 1884

  • Up until September of 2010, these recordings were exclusively housed at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, but now anyone with a computer can log on and listen to their forbears express their heroic dreams for a bright new future.

    Cheryl Wills: The Ghosts of America's Past Speak Cheryl Wills 2010

  • Up until September of 2010, these recordings were exclusively housed at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, but now anyone with a computer can log on and listen to their forbears express their heroic dreams for a bright new future.

    Cheryl Wills: The Ghosts of America's Past Speak Cheryl Wills 2010

  • I had eight forbears at King's Mountain for the little set to with the Tories, and seven at the battle of the Cow Pens.

    The Four Toughest Men of the Old West 2009

  • Up until September of 2010, these recordings were exclusively housed at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, but now anyone with a computer can log on and listen to their forbears express their heroic dreams for a bright new future.

    Cheryl Wills: The Ghosts of America's Past Speak Cheryl Wills 2010

  • I had eight forbears at King's Mountain for the little set to with the Tories, and seven at the battle of the Cow Pens.

    The Four Toughest Men of the Old West 2009

  • Up until September of 2010, these recordings were exclusively housed at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, but now anyone with a computer can log on and listen to their forbears express their heroic dreams for a bright new future.

    Cheryl Wills: The Ghosts of America's Past Speak Cheryl Wills 2010

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  • Now I know who it's for.

    October 15, 2008