forbore
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Definition(s):
- (n) a person from whom you are descended
- (v) refrain from doing
- (v) resist doing something
Usage(s):
- Yet Lawyer Littlepage, to whom Milly was secretary, forbore to dismiss her despite her flippancy, her sullen desire to live her own life regardless of the opinions of others.
- According to Senor Calles, he forbore to act in the hope that the plotters would renounce their treasonable intentions.
- A couple of hundred other bright persons also forbore.
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