Forbear vs Progenitor - What's the difference?
forbear | progenitor | Related terms |
To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up.
To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
* Bible, 1 Kings xxii. 6
To refuse; to decline; to give no heed.
* Bible, Ezekiel ii. 7
To control oneself when provoked.
* Cowper
* Old proverb
* [1906] 2004, Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville, Ethel Wedgwood tr.
* [1936] 2004, Raymond William Firth, We the Tikopia [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=Eiji-EnuhXUC&pg=PA345&lpg=PA345&sig=aB2VV0fcWv6lkQPQatQQbDhlm_8]
* 1997, H. L. Hix, Understanding W. S. Merwin [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=8JIveUt8StQC&pg=PA107&lpg=PA107&sig=_AETFoZUYlti38_Va0zOHD4yZTk]
A forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors.
An individual from whom one or more people (dynasty, tribe, nation...) are descended.
(biology) An ancestral form of a species
(figuratively) A predecessor of something, especially if also a precursor or model.
(figuratively) Someone who originates something.
A founder.
Forbear is a related term of progenitor.
As nouns the difference between forbear and progenitor
is that forbear is while progenitor is a forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors.As a verb forbear
is to keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up.forbear
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) forberen, from (etyl) . (got)Verb
- Shall I go to battle, or shall I forbear ?
- Thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear .
- The kindest and the happiest pair / Will find occasion to forbear .
- Both bear and forbear .
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- Sirs, I am quite sure that the King of England's forbears rightly and justly lost the conquered lands that I hold [...]
- One does not take one’s family name therefrom, and again the position of the mother in that group is determined through her father and his male forbears in turn; this too is a patrilineal group.
- Beginning with the bald declaration “I think I was cold in the womb,” the speaker in “The Forbears'” then decides that his brother (who died soon after birth) must also have been cold in the womb, like his grandfather John and the ' forbears who antedated John:
progenitor
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Alternative forms
* progenitour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- ''Abraham alias Ibrahim is the progenitor of both the Jewish and Arab peoples.
- was the progenitor of the Internet.