forebear

Converse of object

• fight: Too many of our forebears not only fought and died for it.
• use: Long Melford village is in very close proximity to area where his forebears used to live for centuries.
• prescribe: For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago.
• find: However, nothing quite beats the thrill of suddenly finding a forebear on a film or handling a document signed by a great-great-great-grandfather.

Adjective modifier

• illustrious: Today's evangelicals are surely no less concerned than their illustrious 19th century forebears for holistic societal reform.
• Victorian: Compared to their Victorian forebears, today's local administrations lack the powers to govern in the round.
• spiritual: One of the achievements of our spiritual forebears was to embody love.
• own: He said his own forebears had come from central Europe in a previous wave of immigration, no doubt to escape persecution.
• immediate: There is little in the 18th-century that suggests any immediate forebears.
• medieval: The English philologist and historian, Owen Barfield, has pointed out how our medieval forebears enthusiastically elaborated the possibilities of logical judgment.

Modifies a noun

• regiment: The Queen's Regiment The Queen's Regiment inherited a rich history of traditions including marches from the forebear Regiments.
• appendice: Aircraft designed and built by McDonnell-Douglas and forebears Appendices: A: Production summary.

Noun used with modifier

• century: The Quaker families in those concerns, like their 18th century forebears, accumulated wealth on a stunning scale.
• pagan: In his reply the Imam accuses him of enmity toward the prophets and of the love of his pagan forebears.

Preposition: in

• faith: They literally and symbolically hold the DNA of the stories of these who are our forebears in the faith.

Preposition: of

• today: Such innovations are, perhaps, the spiritual forebears of today 's non-invasive imaging techniques, such as ultrasound.