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Definition of Step to the fore
1. Verb. Make oneself visible; take action. "Young people should step to the fore and help their peers"
Generic synonyms: Act, Move
Lexicographical Neighbors of Step To The Fore
Literary usage of Step to the fore
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoir of Thomas Addis and Robert Emmet: With Their Ancestors and Immediate by Thomas Addis Emmet (1915)
"A tolerated existence unknown to the law of the land, is no longer the condition
even in Ireland, and the Irishman has but to step to the fore and take what ..."
2. The Religious Development of the Negro in Virginia by Joseph Brummell Earnest (1914)
"Neither alternative will be necessary, if intelligent leaders will step to the
fore and guide the Negroes in this important crisis. ..."
3. Every where by Will Carleton (1910)
"Then it is, that beneficent institutions step to the fore—a thousand institutions
that have done so much good in the past and are ready and willing to do so ..."
4. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1870)
"... extending from the turret step to the fore and aft iron bulkheads. These fore
and aft bulkheads are connected to two athwartship bulkheads, ..."
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