Verb

(head)

(forbear)

* {{quote-book, year=1889, author=Henry James, title=A London Life and Other Tales, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Jasper was walking about among them alone, but I forebore to join him. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1906, author=Edith Van Dyne, title=Aunt Jane's Nieces, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=With this she threw herself, sobbing, upon a sofa, and Louise and Beth, shocked to learn that after all their cousin had conspired against them, forebore any attempt to comfort her. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1909, author=Jack London, title=Martin Eden, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Out of pity she forebore , and he went on. }}

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Verb

(forebod)

To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).

* (Nathaniel Hawthorne), The Scarlet Letter

There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart.

To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.

* Tennyson

His heart forebodes a mystery.

* Middleton

Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Caesar's death.

* H. James

I have a sort of foreboding about him.