Meanings (ES + gloss)
abstenerse
To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from.
Mr. Sheriff, I desire that this manacling may be forborn: if you please to clap a guard of a hundred men upon us, I shall pay for it. This is not only a disgrace to me, but in gene…
The earth shall soon dissolve like snow the sun forbear to shine
retenerse
To control oneself when provoked.
The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear.