The word 'forebear' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb meaning to give birth to, to act as a predecessor to, or to originate from an ancestor. For example, one might say "These days, many people are proud of their forebears who fought for freedom during the Revolutionary War."
Hamburglar is stealing headlines for a look that has diners used to the cartoonish approachability of his forebear wondering what to make of the man in the trenchcoat, fedora and Velcro shoes.
Outside his political base of Alberta, many fear that his new party has inherited the social conservatism of its chief forebear, the Canadian Alliance.
His father came from a line of Norman squires claiming a forebear who sailed with William to conquer England in 1066.
A corporate forebear of Fininvest is a company called Finanziaria di Investimento Fininvest Srl (Fininvest Srl), which was incorporated in Rome in March 1975.
Mr Bahceli heads an ultra-nationalist (some call it neo-fascist) party whose forebear, in the 1970s and 1980s, was engaged in street violence and racketeeering.In this section Is the venture now in peril?
ACCORDING to the book of Genesis, Asher was one of the 12 sons of Jacob, and hence the forebear of one of the tribes of Israel.
They cherish the cross-border meetings as the symbolic forebear of a putative all-Ireland administration.
Produced in a different womb and growing up at a different time than his forebear, a clone may (we don't know) be much less similar than an identical twin.
Cassandra is obviously not the only forecaster, and sadly on occasion this particular modern-day soothsayer fails to match the infallibility of his classical forebear.
Not only is next month the 200th anniversary of the log-cabin birth of the Great Emancipator, but Barack Obama will also conspicuously carry the banner of his Illinois forebear into the White House on January 20th.Mr Obama has asked to take his oath on the same Bible that Lincoln used at his 1861 swearing-in (pictured above).
The phrase, if it catches on, may share the fate of its American forebear.
