- An ancestor, also
known as a forefather, fore-elder, or a
forebear, is a
parent or (recursively) the
parent of an
antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent...
- Jean-Paul
Sartre and
Ernest Hemingway, but
concluded "Mr. Burkes'
literary forebear is
Thomas Hardy." Burke's 1982 novel, Two for Texas, was made into a 1998...
- are
presumably copies of
texts written at an
earlier time. Old
Irish is
forebear to
Modern Irish, Manx and
Scottish Gaelic. Old
Irish is
known for having...
- and the
largest party in
modern Welsh politics.
Welsh Labour and its
forebears have won a
plurality of the
Welsh vote at
every UK
general election since...
- in 1922, and
approved by the
South African Kennel Union in 1927. Its
forebears can be
traced to the
ridged hunting and
guardian dogs of the Khoikhoi...
- Erec and
Enide (French: Érec et Énide) is the
first of Chrétien de Troyes' five
romance poems,
completed around 1170. It is one of
three completed works...
- Hastinapura, in the epic Mahabharata. He was a
descendant of the
Bharata race, a
forebear of the
lineage of the Chandravamsha, the
father of
Bhishma and the great-grandfather...
- movement. The
Narodniks were in many ways the
intellectual and
political forebears and, in
notable cases,
direct parti****nts of the
Russian Revolution—in...
-
nominating convention, but
Truman refused to compromise, saying: "My
forebears were Confederates ... but my very
stomach turned over when I had learned...
- (1961). PT-109, John F.
Kennedy in
World War II. McGraw-Hill. p. 26. His
forebears had
immigrated from
Ireland and
acquired political power in the Democratic...
