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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   One who forbears.

   "The West, as a father, all goodness doth bring, The East, a forbearer no manner of thing"

Example

More examples

"The forbearer of ecological disaster is the thinning of the ozone layer."

Etymology

From forbear + -er.

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