Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bear; behave.
- To suffer or tolerate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To bear; to behave.
- transitive verb Proverbs To put up with; to endure.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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!
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That to make divisions was a thing she could not abear to think of, neither could her feelings let her do it.
Barnaby Rudge 2007
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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.
Westward Ho! 2007
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He called Mrs. Bolton Mrs. B., and was very intimate, familiar, and facetious with that lady, quite different from that “aughty, artless beast,” as Mrs. Bolton now denominated a certain young gentleman of our acquaintance, and whom she now vowed she never could abear.
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However it may be at Westminster, Irish Members can't abear obstruction at home; brought in Bill to remove Monument lower down street; long debate; towards close Admiral FIELD suddenly hove in sight; bore down on enemy.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 21, 1891 Various
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'Dick,' she said, clutching the young man by the arm, 'I can't abear it any longer.
Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray David Christie Murray
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Hunder-cook, indeed! which it's what I never abore yet, and never will abear.
The Cryptogram A Novel James De Mille
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'It fair upset me; I told her never to do that again; I could not abear to see it,' confessed another.
The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men" Minnie Lindsay Rowell Carpenter
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WINSTON, who can't abear strong language, rose from Treasury Bench and stalked forth behind the SPEAKER'S chair, example numerously followed above and below Gangway.
Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914 Various
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The SQUIRE, though not lacking in moods of generosity, cannot abear a rival in the oratorical field.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 4, 1891 Various
tankhughes commented on the word abear
I would love to nap next to abear.
August 23, 2022