go forth

Meanings

verbgo forth (third-person singular simple present goes forth, present participle going forth, simple past went forth, past participle gone forth)

present singular third person goes forth · participle present going forth · past went forth · participle past gone forth

To move oneself forward or onward
To depart from a place; to set out.
1 more example
"I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places.[…]"
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
To be divulged or made generally known; to spread; to emanate.

verbgo away from a place

Broader

verbcome out of

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

From Middle English gon forth, equivalent to go + forth. Compare forthgo.

More words from Middle English

Latin prōdeō

Māori tāwhai

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