abrook

Definition

To brook; to endure.

Etymology

From a- + brook (“to endure”). Compare Old English ābrūcan (“to eat”).

Example Sentences

• "[…] / Uneath may she endure the flinty streets, / To tread them with her tender-feeling feet. / Sweet Nell, ill can thy noble mind abrook / The abject people gazing on thy face / With envious looks, laughing at thy shame, / […]"