forthdrawing

English

Verb

forthdrawing

  1. present participle of forthdraw

Adjective

forthdrawing (not comparable)

  1. Drawing or extending forth
    • 1926, Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, But in Our Lives:
      "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.

Noun

forthdrawing (uncountable)

  1. A going forth or forward
    • 1880, William Hector, Vanduara:
      "[...] For the aferschots, the riders of the horses keeping their weights they had before their forthdrawing and not otherwise."
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