"forbear" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb which means to be patient, to abstain from doing something, or to refrain from certain behavior. Example sentence: I will try to forbear from making any hasty decisions until I have had more time to consider my options.
The worry here is that Locke holds that the objects of volition are actions or forbearances, so the man would need to be described as willing to forbear from falling.
What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
They need little enough excuse to do it, and the only connection between their censorship and the war on terror is that their Western friends might be more inclined than usual to forbear from criticism in case they offend an ally in the war.
"Was he a forbear of expressive use of colour?
That leaves large parts of the market in limbo, producing enough cash from tenants for owners to stay alive and lenders to forbear but with little prospect of an immediate recovery in values.How long can this last?
But even he can scarce forbear to cheer the dash of the confederacy's cavalry and the resilience of its infantry.
He asks that "the German elites and public forbear national introversion" because there is no alternative to German leadership.
The researchers forbear to ask whether being chatted up by a man is so boring that a woman needs the effects of pheromones to stay awake.
Her forbear, an English blacksmith called George Ashby, set sail for the wilderness of Barbados in the late 1630s.
The Guugu Yimithirr, whose forbears had encountered Captain Cook near the town that bears his name in 1770, were at risk of collaborating with invading Japanese in 1942, according to the government of the time.
In January he said Muslims who paid for their passports had more right to be in Australia than Anglo Saxons, whose forbears arrived in "shackles".
