Forbears is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FORBEARS in dictionary:

VERB:
• FORBEAR, to refrain from
• politely or patiently restrain an impulse to do something; refrain
• refrain from doing or using (something)

Words related to FORBEARS

forbare12 forbear12 forbearing16 forbore12 forborne13

How to use FORBEARS in a sentence

• Bertrand had ceased from sobbing, and his face had the far-away wildness of the fanatic, such a look as his forbears may have worn at the news of St.
• For the divinity that doth hedge a king I care as little as one should whose forbears fought in the Revolution.
• But he forbears to class it with the auxiliaries, and even contradicts himself, by a subsequent remark taken from Dr.
• The Lincolns, the forbears of the great President, were a typical family of this class.
• Both of them were born on the Contee tobacco plantation, owned by Richard and Charles Contee, whose forbears were early settlers in the State.
• They started afresh, owing nothing to their immediate forbears, and when they talked, say, of Chaucer, they did so in very much the same accent as we do to-day.
• The committee also forbears from discussing the merits of the many patents which have been taken out for wood preservation.
• He falls in love with his cousin Charlotte Rusport, but forbears proposing to her, because he is poor and she is rich.
• In his dignity of manner, there almost seemed to you a glimpse of the gallant age when forbears had gone whistling to the headsman.
• Don Sancho de Zeyba, of whose capacity and of the services of his forbears and his own, your Majesty has full notice.
• I’m rich enough, thanks be to heaven and our forbears.
• No traditions, no legends, are abroad to tell them of their forbears.
• I promise myself a very liberal one from your royal kindness and generosity, in proportion to my services and those of my ancestors and forbears.
• Under her guiding Aimery made his peace with the Church, and became notable for his gifts to God, for he derived great wealth from his Flemish forbears.
• He hated the modern New England theological heresies with all the zeal of his Scotch Presbyterian forbears.
• No one, indeed, who reads a Dreiser novel can fail to see the gap separating the author from these half-forgotten forbears.
• Not the least important duty, he continued, of posterity towards itself lies in passing righteous judgement on the forbears who stand up before it.
• It is the embodiment of the opinions, ideas, and habits of life inherited by each generation from its forbears.
• Her husband, William, was a descendant of the Cheehaw Indians, some of his a forbears being full-blooded Cheehaws.
• Concerning the real character of his forbears he learned next to nothing.
• His forbears belonged to the lesser gentry of Saintonge, and from them he inherited a roving strain.
• Both were children of Concord in a sense, she by adoption and I through the fact that it had been the home of my forbears for seven generations.
• The word is sometimes spelled forbears, a worse spelling than the other, but not much.
• But that does not lessen the warmth of his attachment to the place of his birth, or the land of his forbears.
• The mariner of these days has literally plain sailing in comparison with his forbears of one hundred and fifty years ago.
• When we go out on the hills on a spring morning, as our forbears did ten thousand years ago, it does not fret us to consider that things are going on very much as they did then.

Similar words containing FORBEAR without suffix s

forbear12 forbearer14 forbearant15 forbearers15 forbearing16 forbearance18 forbearances19 forbearingly21

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