A person from whom you are descended

Usage examples of forebear.

He was about the same height as Aguinaldo but stockier, like his Korean forebears.

I had foreknown, thou couldst not forebear to save a poor weakling, beset by human wolves.

Fatten ravens in the East, and the filthy landloupers of the steppe might slouch back to wherever their forebears had spawned them.

Despite the evocative surname, Dagobert is a genuine descendant of a noble family from Normandy, whose forebears were closely involved in the Languedocian Masonic societies centred on the Marquis de Chefdebien and the Hautpoul family.

And because his forebears, the brothers Simon and Gregor Materna, always came back mostly to wreak vengeance with fire and sword: that was how Drehergasse and Petersiliengasse went up in flames, how Langgarten and St.

Isabella and I exchanged medium hello smiles and Orkney returned to the subject of American forebears.

When we recall the ten plagues at Pesach, we do so not as a historical exercise, but in order that we ourselves may be purified by this Light just as our forebears have been, not just in Egypt but wherever and whenever this holiday has been celebrated.

He really makes it sound as though all the facts are now in hand concerning the Predynastic Egyptians and their forebears, and that nothing more remains to be discovered about any of them.

Phule sometimes wondered if that was a trait the Zenobians derived from their reptilelike forebears, who preferred to bask in the sun until either an imminent threat or passing prey spurred them to action.

The Sabreurs were sons of great houses, whose forebears had borne arms for at least four generations.

Our forebears who lived a hundred years ago would think it a very dull life, for they devoted most of their time to the pursuit of pleasure, which was one of the reasons that the Kapars prosecuted the war so successfully at first, and why almost every nation on Poloda, with the exception of Unis, was either subjugated or exterminated by the Kapars.

Mars, as we all know, but they belonged mostly to ethnic Russians through the first two decades of the twenty-first century, as your forebears styled time.

I said I was a kind of writer, more of a journalist, and wanted to record this part of the country, for some of my forebears had come from here.

Like his Celtic forebears he venerated words and their power, for filled with a recklessness and gaiety though he was, he was also a man of intellectual vigor.

Whenever he and Stephen had come face to face in the past few years he had denied this statement entirely, but now, as he looked at the young man he was claiming as his son, he acknowledged for the first time a grave doubt, for he could see no trace of himself or his forebears in the ascetic face that was glaring at him.