See forbear on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1649, “185. The Trial of Colonel John Morris, Governor of Pontefract Castle; at the Assizes at the Castle of York, before Mr. John Puleston, and Mr. Baron Thorpe, Justices of Assize, for High Treason: […]”, in [William] Cobbett, editor, Cobbett’s Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, volume IV, London: Printed by Thomas Curson Hansard, […]; published by R. Bagshaw [et al.], published 1809, →OCLC, column 1266:",
"text": "Mr. Sheriff, I desire that this manacling may be forborn: if you please to clap a guard of a hundred men upon us, I shall pay for it. This is not only a disgrace to me, but in general to all soldiers; which doth more trouble me than the loss of my life.",
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"ref": "1779, John Newton (lyrics and music), “Amazing Grace”:",
"text": "The earth shall soon dissolve like snow / the sun forbear to shine",
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"ref": "1926, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 170:",
"text": "Poor Arabs wondered why I had no mare; I forbore to puzzle them by incomprehensible talk of hardening myself, or confess I would rather walk than ride for sparing of animals:",
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"ref": "2017 September 7, Ferdinand Mount, “Umbrageousness”, in London Review of Books:",
"text": "For his part, Tharoor cannot forbear to praise the achievements of men like Arthur Cotton, whose Godavari Delta irrigation scheme remains much as he left it in 1852.",
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"(transitive) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from."
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"text": "Por[tia]. I pray you tarrie, pauſe a day or two / Before you hazard, for in chooſing wrong / I looſe your companie ; therefore forbeare a while, /[...]",
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 22:6:",
"text": "Then the king of Iſrael gathered the prophets together about foure hundred men, and ſaid vnto them, Shall I goe againſt Ramoth Gilead to battell, or ſhall I forbeare? [...]",
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"ref": "1782, William Cowper, “Mutual Forbearance”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "The kindest and the happiest pair / Will find occasion to forbear.",
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"(intransitive) To control oneself when provoked."
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"text": "[1906] 2004, Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville, Ethel Wedgwood tr.\nSirs, I am quite sure that the King of England's forbears rightly and justly lost the conquered lands that I hold …"
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"3": "",
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"ref": "1649, “185. The Trial of Colonel John Morris, Governor of Pontefract Castle; at the Assizes at the Castle of York, before Mr. John Puleston, and Mr. Baron Thorpe, Justices of Assize, for High Treason: […]”, in [William] Cobbett, editor, Cobbett’s Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, volume IV, London: Printed by Thomas Curson Hansard, […]; published by R. Bagshaw [et al.], published 1809, →OCLC, column 1266:",
"text": "Mr. Sheriff, I desire that this manacling may be forborn: if you please to clap a guard of a hundred men upon us, I shall pay for it. This is not only a disgrace to me, but in general to all soldiers; which doth more trouble me than the loss of my life.",
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"ref": "1779, John Newton (lyrics and music), “Amazing Grace”:",
"text": "The earth shall soon dissolve like snow / the sun forbear to shine",
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"ref": "1926, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 170:",
"text": "Poor Arabs wondered why I had no mare; I forbore to puzzle them by incomprehensible talk of hardening myself, or confess I would rather walk than ride for sparing of animals:",
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},
{
"ref": "2017 September 7, Ferdinand Mount, “Umbrageousness”, in London Review of Books:",
"text": "For his part, Tharoor cannot forbear to praise the achievements of men like Arthur Cotton, whose Godavari Delta irrigation scheme remains much as he left it in 1852.",
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"(transitive) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from."
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"ref": "c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 173:",
"text": "Por[tia]. I pray you tarrie, pauſe a day or two / Before you hazard, for in chooſing wrong / I looſe your companie ; therefore forbeare a while, /[...]",
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 22:6:",
"text": "Then the king of Iſrael gathered the prophets together about foure hundred men, and ſaid vnto them, Shall I goe againſt Ramoth Gilead to battell, or ſhall I forbeare? [...]",
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"(intransitive) To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay."
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 2:7:",
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"(intransitive) To refuse; to decline; to withsay; to unheed."
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"ref": "1782, William Cowper, “Mutual Forbearance”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "The kindest and the happiest pair / Will find occasion to forbear.",
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"(intransitive) To control oneself when provoked."
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"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "ez egin"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otbjagvam",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "отбягвам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "stranja ot",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "страня от"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zdržet se"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "vyhnout se"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to keep away from",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "estää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "välttää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "éviter"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "s’abstenir"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "tartózkodik"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izbegátʹ",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "избега́ть"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to keep away from",
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},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vǎzdǎržam se",
"sense": "to refrain from proceeding",
"word": "въздържам се"
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"word": "vzdát"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to refrain from proceeding",
"word": "estyä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to refrain from proceeding",
"word": "ajourner"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to refrain from proceeding",
"word": "refréner"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to refrain from proceeding",
"word": "réfréner"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vozdérživatʹsja",
"sense": "to refrain from proceeding",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "возде́рживаться"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to give no heed",
"word": "kieltäytyä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to give no heed",
"word": "refuser"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to give no heed",
"word": "décliner"
},
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"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "freidjan",
"sense": "to give no heed",
"word": "𐍆𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kontroliram se",
"sense": "to control oneself when provoked",
"word": "контролирам се"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to control oneself when provoked",
"word": "zich inhouden"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to control oneself when provoked",
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},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to control oneself when provoked",
"word": "pidättyä (tekemästä jotakin)"
},
{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to control oneself when provoked",
"word": "se retenir"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to control oneself when provoked",
"word": "garder son sang froid"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bytʹ terpelívym",
"sense": "to control oneself when provoked",
"word": "быть терпели́вым"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "to control oneself when provoked",
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],
"word": "проявля́ть терпе́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "to control oneself when provoked",
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"imperfective"
],
"word": "контроли́ровать себя́"
},
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"word": "retenerse"
}
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"text": "[1906] 2004, Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville, Ethel Wedgwood tr.\nSirs, I am quite sure that the King of England's forbears rightly and justly lost the conquered lands that I hold …"
},
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"ref": "[1936] 2004, Raymond William Firth, We the Tikopia http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=Eiji-EnuhXUC&pg=PA345&lpg=PA345&sig=aB2VV0fcWv6lkQPQatQQbDhlm_8",
"text": "One does not take one’s family name therefrom, and again the position of the mother in that group is determined through her father and his male forbears in turn; this too is a patrilineal group."
},
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"ref": "1997, H. L. Hix, Understanding W. S. Merwin:",
"text": "Beginning with the bald declaration “I think I was cold in the womb,” the speaker in “The Forbears” then decides that his brother (who died soon after birth) must also have been cold in the womb, like his grandfather John and the forbears who antedated John:",
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