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Definition of Hear out
1. Verb. Listen to every detail and give a full hearing to.
Definition of Hear out
1. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To listen to someone until that person has finished. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hear Out
Literary usage of Hear out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Shepard: First Pastor of the First Church, Cambridge by Thomas Shepard (1853)
"It was a sad speech of a brother lately, which has oft affected me, that " a man
may pray out, hear out all the grace of his heart. ..."
2. German Verbs: Primitives and Their Compounds by Benno Kirschbaum (1906)
"to listen to, to hear out, to give one's attention to. Auf horchen (intr., sep.), to
give ear, to lend an ear, to stand listening. ..."
3. Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings; the Folk-lore of the Old Plantation by Joel Chandler Harris (1880)
"1101) on my tool, little :Jack Spanner, kaze I'm de'f in one year en I can't hear
out'n do udder. ..."
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