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forebear

[ fawr-bair, fohr- ]

noun

  1. Usually forebears. ancestors; forefathers.


forebear

/ ˈ´ÚÉ”ËËŒ²úɛə /

noun

  1. an ancestor; forefather
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Origin of forebear1

1425–75; Middle English (Scots), equivalent to fore- fore- + -bear “being,†variant of beer; be, -er 1
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Its lineage goes back to the native Americans, and forward to what our recent forebears had built on those same spots.

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Our medieval forebears saw nothing inconsistent between devout Christian faith and deep belief in magic.

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"Our forebears worked hard to coin that language," she asserts.

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Frances Dinkenspiel is an author and journalist who has written a lot about California, including the book “Towers of Gold,†about her forebear, the pioneering banker and landowner Isaias Hellman.

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Spain rebuffed the president’s demands, with government officials telling journalists that the nation’s current leaders should not be held responsible for the actions of their forebears.

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