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abear

verb, noun — 4 senses

abear

verb

UK /əˈbɛə/ · US /əˈbɛɹ/

Etymology From Middle English aberen, from Old English āberan (“to bear, carry, carry away”), from ā- (“away, out”), a- + beran (“to bear”), from Proto-Germanic *uzberaną (“to bear off, bring forth, produce”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”), equivalent to a- + bear. Cognate with Old High German irberan, Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (usbairan).

1

Archaic, Dialectal To put up with; to endure; to bear.

  • Hunder-cook, indeed! which it's what I never abore yet, and never will abear.1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:
  • And he seems sweet on Miss Hazel though she can’t abear him, though when I ask her about him she snaps my head off and tells me to mind my own business.1926, Hope Mirrlees, chapter 6, in Lud-in-the-Mist, London: Millennium, published 2000, page 68:
2

Obsolete To bear; to carry.

3

Obsolete To behave; to comport oneself.

  • So did the Faerie knight himselfe abeare, / And stouped oft his head from shame to shield […]1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.12:
Derived terms
abearance, abearing

abear

noun

Etymology From Middle English aberen, from Old English āberan (“to bear, carry, carry away”), from ā- (“away, out”), a- + beran (“to bear”), from Proto-Germanic *uzberaną (“to bear off, bring forth, produce”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”), equivalent to a- + bear. Cognate with Old High German irberan, Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (usbairan).

1

Obsolete Bearing, behavior.

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