abearとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /əˈbɛə/, [əˈbɛː]
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /əˈbɛɹ/, [əˈbɛɚ]
• 韻: -ɛə(ɹ)

動詞

abear (三人称単数 現在形 abears, 現在分詞 abearing, 過去形 abore, 過去分詞 aborn または aborne)

1. (transitive, now rare, dialectal) To put up with; to endure; to bear. [from 9th c.]
   • 1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram‎^[1], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:

     Hunder-cook, indeed! which it's what I never abore yet, and never will abear.

   • 1926, Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist, London: Millennium, 2000, Chapter 6, p. 68,^[2]

     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.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To bear; to carry. [10th-15th c.]
3. (transitive, reflexive, obsolete) To behave; to comport oneself. [16th-17th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.12:

     So did the Faerie knight himselfe abeare, / And stouped oft his head from shame to shield […]