Definition of "forbearers" []

• Plural form of forbearer. (noun)

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• "Imagine then his dismay at an inaugural address that suffered from “moth-eaten metaphors,” “faux-antique dialect,” and jarring semantic errors like Obama’s use of the word forbearers when he meant forebears."
• "The league said it had never engaged in any criminal activity because it was aware that this would undermine the freedom its "forbearers" had fought for with their lives."
• "Look back at the "forbearers" sentence, and see the sting in its tail: "true to our founding documents"."