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sets forward

sets forward is the third-person singular simple present indicative of set forward.

Meaning of set forward

Verb

set forward (third-person singular simple present sets forward, present participle setting forward, simple past and past participle set forward)

  1. To put or carry (something) forward.
  2. To help or assist (a person, project etc.); to promote.
  3. To propose, suggest (an opinion, theory etc.).
    • God endued them with a mind conformable, and subordinate to that of Moses, that they might Prophecy, that is to say, speak to the people in Gods name, in such manner, as to set forward (as Ministers of Moses, and by his authority) such doctrine as was agreeable to Moses his doctrine.1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
  4. (intransitive) To set off, set forth; to start.
    • We promised that we would, and he set forwards on his Journey to Town.1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia

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Sets forward is the third-person singular simple present indicative of set forward.

Words near sets forward in the dictionary

  1. sets fire to
  2. sets fire unto
  3. sets fire upon
  4. sets foot
  5. sets forth
  6. sets forward
  7. sets forwards
  8. sets free
  9. sets in
  10. sets in motion
  11. sets in stone

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