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    [Noun]  | "fore*bear" | \ ˈfȯr-ˌber \


    1: ancestor, forefather; also : precursor —usually used in plural


    Origin: 15th century ;

     Middle English (Scots), from fore- + -bear (from been to be);

    [Noun]  | "forebears" 


    1: a person who is several generations earlier in an individual's line of descent;


      * e.g., " ... his forebears came to America on the Mayflower "





    [Noun]  | "forebear" 


    1: a person who is several generations earlier in an individual's line of descent;


      * e.g., " ... his forebears came to America on the Mayflower "





     [ "forebear" ]

    1: The feeling you get when on acid where you want to dock with you Jewish Russian friends.

      * e.g.,  ... "When I was tripping I so wanted to forebear" 

     [ "forebears" ]

    1: Human lived before us l ancestors

      * e.g.,  ... The idea of “stages” of human development, typically divided into three—savage, barbarian and civilised—persisted. Indigenous people were excluded from this concept of progress. European thinkers considered them to be much like humans’ long-ago forebears. 

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