Meanings
nounforbearer (plural forbearers)
plural forbearers
- One who forbears.
The West, as a father, all goodness doth bring, The East, a forbearer no manner of thing
1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC
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