forborne

Leander would hardly have been himself if he had forborne to take advantage of her discomfiture.

And I were fain to reward her in that she hath forborne to grudge against thee and to bear thee enmity.

But ere the slaves had entered Bhanavar rubbed the Jewel on her bosom, muttering, 'I have forborne till now!

To men I had forborne it; you are women, Or, at the best, loose carpet-knights.

Plutina had forborne any account of this trouble to her lover, lest, by bad blood between the two men, a worse thing befall.