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unforeheard

unforeheard adjective: not foreheard; not heard in advance.

Adjective

unforeheard (not comparable)

  1. Not foreheard; not heard in advance.
    • […] for an educational masterpiece it does remain despite the unforeheard, inartistic results which certain features of his mastery are producing.1984, Dominic Gill, The Book of the Violin, page 148
    • Like Mendelssohn (whose concern is with a phenomenon worth thinking more about, the unforeheard), Derrida drops the onset of the sacred […]2020, Benedict Taylor, Rethinking Mendelssohn, page 344

Origin of unforeheard

From un- + foreheard.

Questions about unforeheard

What does unforeheard mean?
Unforeheard means not foreheard; not heard in advance.
What part of speech is unforeheard?
Unforeheard is an adjective.

Words near unforeheard in the dictionary

  1. unforeboding
  2. unforecast
  3. unforecastable
  4. unforecasted
  5. unforegone
  6. unforeheard
  7. unforeign
  8. unforeknowable
  9. unforeknowing
  10. unforeknown
  11. unforensic

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