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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

forthrow en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English forthrowen (“to hurl”); equivalent to for- + throw.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To throw off; cast off; reject.
    • The two stand endlessly facing one another, "Ahab in his scuttle, the Parsee by the mainmast; but still fixedly gazing upon each other; as if in the Parsee Ahab saw his forthrown shadow, in Ahab the Parsee his abandoned substance" [...] 1977, Karen M. Adams, Black images in nineteenth-century American painting and literature:
    • Dread is primordially grounded in having-been from where future and present temporalize themselves. Let's start from the disclosing function of existential understanding. Its achievement is to forthrow possibilities. Since being is fully unlike beings, to understand it means to forthrow a possibility in which the sheer other to beings reveals itself. 2007, Limited Intelligence & Active Machinery:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
forthrows Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
forthrowing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
forthrew Tense=Past lexicographic
forthrown Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

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