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forebear
Also ڴǰ·
[fawr-bair, fohr-]
noun
Usually forebears ancestors; forefathers.
forebear
/ ˈɔːˌɛə /
noun
an ancestor; forefather
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Our Puritan forebears believed in the possibility of becoming perfect and one with God.
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When big cities were mentioned at all, Aldean adopted the “live and let live” attitude of forebears like Hank Williams Jr.’s “A Country Boy Can Survive.”
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Its lineage goes back to the native Americans, and forward to what our recent forebears had built on those same spots.
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Our medieval forebears saw nothing inconsistent between devout Christian faith and deep belief in magic.
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"Our forebears worked hard to coin that language," she asserts.
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