[f. FORBEAR v. + -ER1.] One who or that which forbears.
1570. Act 13 Eliz., c. 8 § 5. Contracts … whereupon is not reserved … to the Lender, Contracter, Shifter, Forbearer or Deliverer, above the Sum of ten Pound.
1580. Tusser, Husb., xiii. (1878), 29.
| The West [wind] as a father all goodnesse doth bring, | |
| The East a forbearer, no manner of thing. |
1642. J. Ball, Answ. Canne, Pref. Hee lived and dyed a strict forbearer … of all such corruptions.
1755. Johnson, Forbearer, an intermitter; interceptor of any thing.
