Definition of "abear" [a•bear]

• To bear; to behave. (verb-transitive)
• To put up with; to endure. (verb-transitive)

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• "I am a stranger, not one of your kind; and I cannot abear your custom, and had I known it I never would have wedded among you!"
• "That to make divisions was a thing she could not abear to think of, neither could her feelings let her do it."
• "For I turned, sir, I turned: but I could not help it — I could not abear the torments: but she bore them, sweet angel — and more than I did."