Meanings
verbforthgaze (third-person singular simple present forthgazes, present participle forthgazing, simple past and past participle forthgazed)
present singular third person forthgazes · participle present forthgazing · participle past forthgazed · past forthgazed
- archaicintransitivepoeticTo gaze forth; to look.
Forthgazing on the waste and open sea
1827–1879 (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “Part II”, in The Lover’s Tale, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], published 1879, →OCLC, page 651 more example
Her starlit eyes forthgazed levelly at him.
2016, Amar Mehta, Dispossession
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