forbear
verb (used with object)
to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
have forborne
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present perfectof forbear.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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These scruples you will remember, I respected, although I considered them misplaced; but I would not force the tenderest conscience, and I have forborne in my letters, to urge you upon this point.
From A Search For A Secret (Vol 3 of 3) A Novel by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Harleigh, now, yet more curiously examining her, said, 'It would not have been easy to have forborne taking an interest in her fate.
From The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
In this unusual agitation we have forborne from taking part in any controversy between foreign States, and between parties or factions in such States.
From Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 by Abraham Lincoln
What cause soever thou mightest have had," said the king, "thou shouldst have forborne her in my presence.
From King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Unknown
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 John Pendleton Kennedy
