forborne
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Definition(s):
- (n) a person from whom you are descended
- (v) refrain from doing
- (v) resist doing something
Usage(s):
- For three years the Allies had forborne.
- He had forborne, hoping others would forbear, and they had not.
- New York's Mayor Lindsay has wisely forborne forcing the issue with protesters harmlessly occupying a state building site in Harlem.
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