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forehears

forehears is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 forehears

What is forehears the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Forehears is the third-person singular simple present indicative of forehear.

Words near forehears in the dictionary

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

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