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forteaching

forteaching is the present participle and gerund of forteach.

Meaning of forteach

Verb

forteach (third-person singular simple present forteaches, present participle forteaching, simple past and past participle fortaught)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To unteach; contradict; misteach.
    • The sacred thinges, and holy heasts foretaught.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18

Questions about forteaching

What is forteaching the present participle and gerund of?
Forteaching is the present participle and gerund of forteach.

Words near forteaching in the dictionary

  1. fortax
  2. fortaxes
  3. forte
  4. forteach
  5. forteaches
  6. forteaching
  7. fortean
  8. Forteana
  9. forteans
  10. fortear
  11. Forteau

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