Synonym: forbear. Similar words: rebel, rebellion, rebellious, cerebellum, rebel against, rebelliously, forebode, spill the beans. Meaning: n. a person from whom you are descended.
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1 I'll come back to the land of my forebears.
2 His realism was not the realism of his forebears.
3 One of his forebears could have won the support of Wilfrid.
4 Like their forebears, they chose subjects to illustrate the many facets of village life.
5 But in the land of my forebears, women sit around and wait for their men.
6 He was correct in so far as our forebears were piteously shattered but quite wrong in thinking that they could be subjugated.
7 My forebears hardly knew what went on outside their small feudal society.
8 One family has a Confederate cavalryman among its forebears,[www.Sentencedict.com] the other is descended from slaves.
9 People not only had more than their forebears; they also had revolutionary new products.
10 Karlin relates the oppressive anti-Semitism his forebears endured in a vague, almost elliptical style with dips into the stream of consciousness.
11 Indeed the habits of our civilised forebears at work and play would not always stand up to the scrutiny of the modern conscience.
12 The fillings are as generous as their Stateside forebears and the rye bread has a nice, chewy texture.
13 I had much ado to forebear laughing.
14 He was a good man , but always forebear his wrath and complaint.
15 Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forebear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
16 Many of us conform to the outdated customs laid down by our forebears.
17 They stood for the preservation of the mores and folkways that had guided their forebears for generations.
18 The time of Sigmar passed, and he became a legend, the heroic forebear of his people.
19 If only he had lavished that kind of discrimination on their forebear.
20 None the less they deserve notice and respect, for their forebears were once the most advanced and revolutionary creatures in the seas.
21 Try as they might, however, the younger singers rarely measure up to their forebears.
22 Perhaps it will be consummated on a scale of which our forebears could scarcely dream.
23 Consider how much more frugal the poor are than we, how much better they forebear hardship.
24 A person from whom one is descended , especially if more remote than a grandparent; a forebear.
25 The findings — uncovered by Megan Smolenyak, a genealogist, and The New York Times — substantiate what Mrs. Obama has called longstanding family rumors about a white forebear.
26 The original Mangonel was first used in Roman times to fling large rocks at enemies. This Mangonel, though bearing some resemblance to its forebear, is far larger than its Roman counterparts.
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