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Definition of Forwardness

1. Noun. Offensive boldness and assertiveness.

2. Noun. An advanced stage. "The arts are in no kind of forwardness in this matter"

3. Noun. Prompt willingness. "He tried to explain his forwardness in battle"

Definition of Forwardness

1. n. The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel.

Definition of Forwardness

1. Noun. The quality of being forward. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Forwardness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Forwardness

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Literary usage of Forwardness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1820)
"A plan is also in forwardness for the establishment of a grand college at Adrianople. It has been patronized with zeal by Baron George Sakellarios, ..."

2. The Works of John Locke, in Nine Volumes by John Locke (1824)
"The assuming an authority of die- ness to die- tating to others, and a forwardness to pre- tate, from scribe to their opinions, ..."

3. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Begun in the Year 1641 by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1888)
"forwardness, and he had received his commission for lieutenant- 1642 general of the horse, he wrote to the lord Mandevill, who was pendents (who were the ..."

4. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"... forwardness with his mint, that in the course of three weeks he could furnish their members to Congress with cash of the new coin. ..."

5. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"Sir W. Pen and I on board some of the ships now fitting for East Indys and Portugall, to see in what forwardness they are. 19th. ..."

6. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch (1885)
"... he yet besought them not to yield at least to the common people in the zeal and forwardness they now showed for their country's service, ..."

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