forehear
English edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
forehear (third-person singular simple present forehears, present participle forehearing, simple past and past participle foreheard)
- (transitive, intransitive) To hear beforehand.
- 1837 January, “The Pleasures of Winter”, in The Spirit and Manners of the Age[1], volume 3:
- […] mingled into one beautiful and continuous peal of that earthly harmony which Heaven has given us as a forehearing of those sublimer harmonies that, in its everlasting bowers, take the imprisoned soul, "and lap it in elysium."
- 1905, Margaret Westrup, “Billy's Long Day”, in The Idler[2], volume 26, page 604:
- In that flash of time as his fingers had touched the handle of the table-spoon, he had foreseen John's wild rush to the doors, he had foreheard John's agitated cry of "Thieves! Police! Burglars!"
- 2014, Joseph McElroy, Ancient History: A Paraphrase:
- Holiday labor at the island today: being his guest is a hazardous responsibility: I foresee a swell and forelean to a spumy pitch and forehear the scuff of a badly perched sack of cement as it slips into the racing bay, and my New York imagination […]
References edit
- “forehear”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.