Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of forebear
Out of pity she forebore, and he went on.
1909, Jack London, Martin Eden3 more examples
Jasper was walking about among them alone, but I forebore to join him.
1889, Henry James, A London Life and Other TalesWith this she threw herself, sobbing, upon a sofa, and Louise and Beth, shocked to learn that after all their cousin had conspired against them, forebore any attempt to comfort her.
1906, Edith Van Dyne, Aunt Jane's NiecesThe advent of the mobile phone gradually wore that addiction down to the point that I forebore to have a landline number activated every time I moved adresses^([sic]) or rented another flat.
2015 January 18, Monty Munford, “What’s the point of carrying a mobile phone nowadays?”, in The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 21 Jan 2015
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