putting forth

Verb

put forth (third-person singular simple present puts forth, present participle putting forth, simple past and past participle put forth)

1. (transitive) To give or supply; to make or create (implies trying or striving).
   • to put forth an effort
2. (transitive) To extend forward (a body part or something held).
   • Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
3. (transitive) To advance, offer, propose (often verbally).
   • They put forth queſtions of Aſtrologie, / VVhich Fauſtus anſwerd with ſuch learned ſkill, / As they admirde and wondred at his wit.1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Marl[owe], The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Thomas Bushell, published 1604, →OCLC, signature s D2, verso – D3...
4. (obsolete, transitive) To send (someone) out, remove (someone) from a place.
   • […] they begot no children vntill they were put forth of Paradise […]1610, John Healey, transl., St. Augustine, Of the Citie of God, London: George Eld, Book 14, Chapter 21, p. 524
5. (transitive) To emit, send out, give off (light, odour, etc.).
   • For inward light alas / Puts forth no visual beam.1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 17
6. (intransitive, transitive) To grow, shoot, bud, or germinate.
   • […] her hedges even-pleach’d, / Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair, / Put forth disorder’d twigs;1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

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