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forborne
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Forbear \For*bear"\ (f[o^]r*b[^a]r"), v. i. [imp. Forbore( Forbare, [Obs.]); p. p. Forborne; p. pr. & vb. n. Forbearing.] [OE. forberen, AS. forberan; pref. for- + beran to bear. See Bear to support.]
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To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?
--1 Kings xxii. 6. -
To refuse; to decline; to give no heed.
Thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
--Ezek. ii. 7. -
To control one's self when provoked.
The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear.
--Cowper.Both bear and forbear.
--Old Proverb.
Forborne \For*borne"\, p. p. of Forbear.
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vb. (past participle of forbear English)
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Usage examples of "forborne".
My lord, said the squire, I serve a good knight that is called Sir Aglovale: the squire said it to good intent, weening unto him to have been more forborne for Sir Aglovale's sake, than he had said he had served the queen, Aglovale's mother.
And now I have forborne half a year, and suffered you and Sir Gawaine to do what ye would do.
She filled my heart with such good resolutions, strengthened my weakness so, by her example, so directed - I know not how, she was too modest and gentle to advise me in many words - the wandering ardour and unsettled purpose within me, that all the little good I have done, and all the harm I have forborne, I solemnly believe I may refer to her.
What cause soever ye had, said Arthur, ye should have forborne her in my presence.
The child thought, more than once that he was moved: and had forborne to speak.
Nor will this appear so slight a circumstance as to be unworthy of mention, when it is remembered that the caravan was in uneasy motion all the time, and that none but a person of great natural stateliness and acquired grace could have forborne to stagger.
But if peradventure such were the state of things that the interest of the commonwealth required all slaughter of beasts should be forborne for some while, in order to the increasing of the stock of cattle that had been destroyed by some extraordinary murrain, who sees not that the magistrate, in such a case, may forbid all his subjects to kill any calves for any use whatsoever?