Difference between revisions of "Forthright"
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==Origin== | ==Origin== | ||
[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''forthriht'', from forth + ''riht'' right | [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''forthriht'', from forth + ''riht'' right | ||
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==Definitions== | ==Definitions== | ||
*1:a. Directly forward, in or towards the front, straight before one. | *1:a. Directly forward, in or towards the front, straight before one. | ||
Latest revision as of 00:31, 13 December 2020
Origin
Middle English, from Old English forthriht, from forth + riht right
Definitions
- 1:a. Directly forward, in or towards the front, straight before one.
- b. Straight out, horizontally.
- 1882 A. C. Swinburne, Tristram of Lyonesse 49 "Forthright upon his steed [he] Leap"t.
- 2: Straightway, immediately, at once.
- 3:a. Proceeding in a straight course, directly in front of one, straight forward.
- b. Going straight to the point, straightforward, unswerving, outspoken; also, unhesitating, dexterous.
- 4: A straight course or path
Derivative
- 1873 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 123 Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase.
- 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. iii. xii. 225 He‥carried into his arguments that intensity and forthrightness which awaken dormant opposition.
