forborne
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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At Berlin General von Cramon scored the French for bombarding Damascus; told how Feldmarschall von der Goltz had forborne to shell Antwerp Cathedral during the obliterating German bombardments of Rheims, Verdun, Amiens, etc.
From Time Magazine Archive
New York's Mayor Lindsay has wisely forborne forcing the issue with protesters harmlessly occupying a state building site in Harlem.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had forborne, hoping others would forbear, and they had not.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the old Buddy died and left me her heir, he’d tell me that he had forborne to intrude, had valiantly subdued his impatience, etc., etc.,
From An Unknown Lover by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
I that live in the shelter of these woods by sufferance merely—an unmolested outlaw, to speak soberly, whom these fanatics of liberty have forborne for the sake of past acquaintance and present peaceful habits?
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton
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