forbear
verb (used with object)
to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
had forborne
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past perfectof forbear.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He had forborne, hoping others would forbear, and they had not.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
I had forborne to grieve my family by the story of my disgrace, nor had it yet been detailed to them by the officious communicativeness of pretended friends.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by
The Canadians, whose behavior was all along mysterious, had forborne to give us any hint.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 by Various
Yes, yes, it was for her sake that he had forborne to speak.
From The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) by George Burnham Ives
