forehear

verb

Etymology

From fore- + hear.

  1. inherited from *hauzijaną
  2. inherited from *hauʀijan
  3. inherited from hīeran
  4. inherited from heren
  5. prefixed as forehear — “fore + hear

Definitions

  1. To hear beforehand.

    • […] 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!"

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for forehear. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA