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went forth

went forth is the simple past 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 went forth

What is went forth the simple past of?
Went forth is the simple past of go forth.

Words near went forth in the dictionary

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

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