different between forebear vs forebeat

English

Alternative forms

• forbear

Etymology

Late 15th century, from fore- +? beer (“one who is or exists”, literally “be-er”).

Noun

forebear (plural forebears)

1. An ancestor.
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 566:

     One day, among the days, he bethought him of this and fell lamenting for that the most part of his existence was past and he had not been vouchsafed a son, to inherit the kingdom after him, even as he had inherited it from his fathers and forebears; by reason whereof there betided him sore cark and care and chagrin exceeding.

   • [1906] 2004, Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville, Ethel Wedgwood tr.

     Sirs, I am quite sure that the King of England's forbears rightly and justly lost the conquered lands that I hold […]

   • [1936] 2004, Raymond William Firth, We the Tikopia [1]

     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.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with: forbear verb.

Antonyms

• afterbear

Translations

Verb

forebear (third-person singular simple present forebears, present participle forebearing, simple past forebore, past participle foreborne)

1. Obsolete spelling of forbear

Anagrams

• forbeare

English

Etymology

From fore- +? beat.

Noun

forebeat (plural forebeats)

1. (music) The primary, stronger half of a musical beat.

Antonyms

• afterbeat