Definition of "forebearers" [forebearers]

• Plural form of forebearer. (noun)

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• "Ukrainian forebearers from the lands resting between the Carpathian Mountains in the West, the Black Sea in the South and east across the Dneister, the Dneiper and the Don Rivers, to the unmarked divide between the European and the Asian Steppe lands, have made their magnificent contribution to our country."
• "At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebearers, and true to our founding documents."
• "Our Teutonic forebearers held that honorable death in battle was a good thing to be sought as the "straw death" by lingering illness was considered the worst of outcomes."