English

Verb

forebore

1. simple past tense and past participle of forbear
   • 1889, Henry James, A London Life and Other Tales:

     Jasper was walking about among them alone, but I forebore to join him.

   • 1906, Edith Van Dyne, Aunt Jane's Nieces:

     With 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.

   • 1909, Jack London, Martin Eden:

     Out of pity she forebore, and he went on.

   • 2015 January 18, Monty Munford, “What’s the point of carrying a mobile phone nowadays?”, in The Daily Telegraph:

     The 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 or rented another flat.