forebears
Example Sentences
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This is the scene where she foreswears swearing love, calming his male rashness with gentle corrections and ending with her magnificent metaphor of endless and abundant love.
From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2016
Team GB’s Jenna Randall, a synchronized swimmer, says she foreswears even a bite of chocolate.
From Time • Jul. 30, 2012
He foreswears his occupation, and, a lover of love and beauty, falls in love with an affectionate but unimaginative woman.
From Time Magazine Archive
If either of them afterwards foreswears himself, the other can punish his perfidy by a magical treatment of the purjurer’s spittle which he has in his custody.
From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir
Ah!" exclaimed one of my chums, "the old tree foreswears him!
From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
