Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FOR-BEAR, v.t.

1. To avoid voluntarily; to decline. Forbear his presence. Shak.
2. To abstain from; to omit; to avoid doing. Learn from the Scriptures what you ought to do and what to forbear. Have we not power to forbear working? 1 Cor. ix.
3. To spare; to treat with indulgence and patience. Forbearing one another in love. Eph. iv.
4. To withhold. Forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not. 2 Chron. xxxv.