Some sentence examples which use the word 'forbear'
What I do about slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union ...
So, too, in his great maxim " bear and forbear," the last is a command to refrain from the external advantages.
The Three Sermons also point to a moral argument for theism, but forbear to press it (Sermon ii.; when the third sense of the word " Nature " is being explained).