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forthdrawing

forthdrawing is the present participle and gerund of forthdraw.

Meaning of forthdraw

Verb

forthdraw (third-person singular simple present forthdraws, present participle forthdrawing, simple past forthdrew, past participle forthdrawn)

  1. (obsolete, poetic, transitive) To draw or bring forth.
    • Vpon a day as ſhe him ſate beſide,
      By chance he certaine miniments forth drew,
      Which yet with him as relickes did abide
      Of all the bounty which Belphebe threw
      On him, whilſt goodly grace ſhe did him ſhew: […]1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene: Disposed into Twelue Books, Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, London: Printed [by Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, →OCLC, book IV, canto VIII, stanza VI...

Adjective

forthdrawing (not comparable)

  1. Drawing or extending forth
    • "What I would do is this," continued Lee, and he felt ideas coming into his head even as he spoke to her: she was so forthdrawing, "I shall try and get at the very souls of the best men who have yet appeared in any country or in any sphere of life, and who, therefore, best reveal the nature and...1926, Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, But in Our Lives

Noun

forthdrawing (uncountable)

  1. A going forth or forward
    • "[...] For the aferschots, the riders of the horses keeping their weights they had before their forthdrawing and not otherwise."1880, William Hector, Vanduara

Questions about forthdrawing

What does forthdrawing mean?
Forthdrawing means drawing or extending forth.
What is forthdrawing the present participle and gerund of?
Forthdrawing is the present participle and gerund of forthdraw.
What part of speech is forthdrawing?
Forthdrawing can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near forthdrawing in the dictionary

  1. forthcomings
  2. forthcut
  3. forthdeal
  4. forthdeals
  5. forthdraw
  6. forthdrawing
  7. forthdrawn
  8. forthdraws
  9. forthdrew
  10. forthe
  11. forthen

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