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going forth

going forth is the present participle and gerund of go forth.

Meaning of go forth

Verb

go forth (third-person singular simple present goes forth, present participle going forth, simple past went forth, past participle gone forth)

  1. To move oneself forward or onward
  2. To depart from a place; to set out.
    • "I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering...1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
  3. To be divulged or made generally known; to spread; to emanate.

Questions about going forth

What is going forth the present participle and gerund of?
Going forth is the present participle and gerund of go forth.

Words near going forth in the dictionary

  1. going for the gold
  2. going for the jugular
  3. going for the jugular vein
  4. going for the kill
  5. going for the throat
  6. going forth
  7. going forward
  8. going free
  9. going from 0 to 100
  10. going from bad to worse
  11. going from strength to strength

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