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hearsal

hearsal noun: an act of recounting something; a narrative, a recital, a rehearsal.

Noun

hearsal (plural hearsals)

  1. (obsolete) An act of recounting something; a narrative, a recital, a rehearsal.
    • With this sad hersall of his heavy stresse / The warlike Damzell was empassiond sore […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of hearsal

pluralhearsals

Origin of hearsal

Apheretic alteration of rehearsal.

Questions about hearsal

What does hearsal mean?
Hearsal means an act of recounting something; a narrative, a recital, a rehearsal.
What part of speech is hearsal?
Hearsal is a noun.
What is the plural of hearsal?
The plural of hearsal is hearsals.

Words near hearsal in the dictionary

  1. hears the grass grow
  2. hears the last of
  3. hears things
  4. hears through the grapevine
  5. hears voices
  6. hearsal
  7. hearsals
  8. hearsay
  9. hearsays
  10. hearse
  11. hearsecloth

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