Forthdrawing

adj, noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A going forth or forward uncountable

    ""[...] For the aferschots, the riders of the horses keeping their weights they had before their forthdrawing and not otherwise.""

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of forthdraw form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    Drawing or extending forth not-comparable

    ""What I would do is this," continued Lee, and he felt ideas coming into his head even as he spoke to her: she was so forthdrawing, "I shall try and get at the very souls of the best men who have yet appeared in any country or in any sphere of life, and who, therefore, best reveal the nature and purpose of God."

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""What I would do is this," continued Lee, and he felt ideas coming into his head even as he spoke to her: she was so forthdrawing, "I shall try and get at the very souls of the best men who have yet appeared in any country or in any sphere of life, and who, therefore, best reveal the nature and purpose of God."

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