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forehearing

forehearing is the present participle and gerund of forehear.

Meaning of forehear

Verb

forehear (third-person singular simple present forehears, present participle forehearing, simple past and past participle foreheard)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To hear beforehand.
    • […] mingled into one beautiful and continuous peal of that earthly harmony which Heaven has given us as a forehearing of those sublimer harmonies that, in its everlasting bowers, take the imprisoned soul, "and lap it in elysium."1837 January, “The Pleasures of Winter”, in The Spirit and Manners of the Age, volume 3

Questions about forehearing

What is forehearing the present participle and gerund of?
Forehearing is the present participle and gerund of forehear.

Words near forehearing in the dictionary

  1. foreheadedness
  2. foreheadless
  3. foreheads
  4. forehear
  5. foreheard
  6. forehearing
  7. forehears
  8. forehearth
  9. forehearths
  10. foreheat
  11. foreheated

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