forbear
Example Sentences
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If the real Queen Charlotte could claim any African cultural lineage, it would have come from a distant Portuguese forbear.
From Salon • May 6, 2023
But if “Cabinet of Curiosities” has a spiritual forbear, it is someone more sinister.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2022
"Frankly I do not myself feel at all like my great Tudor forbear."
From Reuters • Feb. 3, 2022
Respondent argues that there is no immediate threat of future harm, because he has and will continue to exercise personal discipline to forbear from discussing these matters in public anymore.
From Slate • Jun. 24, 2021
A scene has just passed of such uncommon interest that, although it is highly probable that these papers may never reach you, yet I cannot forbear recording it.
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
Vocabulary lists containing forbear
Romeo and Juliet
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Grade 11, List 6
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The Hobbit
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