Meaning of put forth | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To give or supply; to make or create (implies trying or striving).
   transitive
2. To extend forward (a body part or something held).
   transitive
3. To advance, offer, propose (often verbally).
   transitive
4. To send (someone) out, remove (someone) from a place.
   obsolete, transitive
5. To emit, send out, give off (light, odour, etc.).
   transitive
6. To grow, shoot, bud, or germinate.
   intransitive, transitive
7. (of a ship) To leave (a port or haven).
   intransitive, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“to put⟳ forth an effort”

“Now, Marcus, now, thy Virtue’s on the Proof: / Put⟳ forth thy utmost Strength, work⟳ ev’ry Nerve, / And call⟳ up all thy Father in thy Soul:”

““Oh! when a gallant young man, like⟳ Mr. Frank Churchill,” said Mr. Knightley dryly, “writes to a fair lady like⟳ Miss⟳ Woodhouse, he will, of course, put⟳ forth his best.””

“He could not move⟳ as quickly as most men, but he put⟳ forth his utmost speed⟳.”

“But his actor’s need⟳ to be liked was stronger than his resentment, and he was putting forth all his charm in an effort to win⟳ over this so-unexpected antagonist.”

“Put⟳ forth thy hand, reach⟳ at the glorious gold.”

“[…] he put⟳ forth the end⟳ of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb […]”

“Put⟳ forth, put⟳ forth that warme balme-breathing thigh, Which when next time you in these sheets wil smother There it must meet⟳ another, Which never was, but must be, oft, more nigh;”

“With his broad Sabre next, a Chief in Years, / The hoary Majesty of Spades appears; / Puts forth one manly Leg, to sight reveal’d; / The rest⟳ his many-colour’d Robe conceal’d.”

“They put⟳ forth queſtions of Aſtrologie, / VVhich Fauſtus anſwerd with ſuch learned ſkill, / As they admirde and wondred at his wit.”

“Another parable put⟳ he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:”

“So far as one can ascertain from the conflicting accounts that have⟳ been put⟳ forth, the majority of them remained busied with preparations […]”

“By the fifteenth the season was in full blast, Opera and theatres were putting forth their new attractions, dinner-engagements were accumulating, and dates for dances being fixed.”

“In its present⟳ form⟳, the social order⟳ depends for its continued existence on the acceptance, without too many embarrassing questions, of the propaganda put⟳ forth by those in authority and the propaganda hallowed by the local traditions.”

“It survived the overreach of progress⟳ once before, escaping demolition and rebuilding in the 1970s. That survival was a triumph against the "stridently modernist" plans then put⟳ forth.”

“[…] they begot no children vntill they were put⟳ forth of Paradise […]”

“Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put⟳ the apostles forth a little space;”

“For inward light⟳ alas / Puts forth no visual beam.”

“[…] now the Moon beginning to put⟳ forth her Silver Light⟳, as the Poets call⟳ it (tho’ she looked at that Time more like⟳ a Piece of Copper) Jones called for his Reckoning […]”

“And, as before, it shone without dismay; Albeit putting forth a fainter light⟳.”

“Thou perceivest the Flowers put⟳ forth their precious Odours, And none can tell⟳ how from so small a center comes such sweet,”

“[…] her hedges even-pleach’d, / Like⟳ prisoners wildly overgrown with hair, / Put⟳ forth disorder’d twigs;”

“[…] [t]ake from vnder Walls, or the like⟳, where Nettles put⟳ forth in abundance, the Earth which you shall there finde […]”

“Soon the beech trees had put⟳ forth their delicate, transparent leaves.”

“[…] order⟳ for sea is given; / They have⟳ put⟳ forth the haven [—] / Where their appointment we may best discover⟳, / And look⟳ on their endeavour.”

“And where but from Nantucket, too, did that first adventurous little sloop put⟳ forth, partly laden with imported cobblestones—so goes the story—to throw⟳ at the whales, in order⟳ to discover⟳ when they were nigh enough to risk⟳ a harpoon from the bowsprit?”

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