Meaning of forehear | Babel Free

Definitions

To hear beforehand.

intransitive, transitive

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."”

“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!"”

“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 […]”

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