Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of
forbear .
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Examples
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` And eek, for she is straunge, he wol forbere 1660
Troilus and Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer
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Though he were hardy & wyse he myȝt not me forbere
The Example of Vertu The Example of Virtue Stephen Hawes
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Though he were hardy & wyse he myȝt not me forbere
The Example of Vertu The Example of Virtue Stephen Hawes
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But at that word, ther was one of the gentlemê that stode by, that could not forbere lawghynge, for the which I was very sory.
The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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