Forehear
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To hear beforehand. intransitive, transitive
"[…] 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.""
Example
More examples"[…] 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.""
Etymology
From fore- + hear.
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