1 I'll come back to the land of my forebears. 2 His realism was not the realism of his forebears. 3 One of his forebears could have won the support of Wilfrid. 4 Like their forebears, they chose subjects to illustrate the many facets of village life.

How do you use forebears?

Forebears sentence example

He was a delicate child, in direct contrast to a strong race of forebears , and inherited from his mother a refined, retiring disposition and a love for books. Compared to their Victorian forebears , today's local administrations lack the powers to govern in the round.

Which is correct forebears or forebearers?

They sometimes choose forebearers, which makes a certain sense because our forefathers had to bear the responsibility of government before us. But the bear in forebear stems from the verb be plus the suffix -er, that is, forebears are really fore-be-ers — they existed ("to be") before us.