hearsal

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noun

An act of recounting something; a narrative, a recital, a rehearsal.

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Meanings

nounhearsal (plural hearsals)

plural hearsals

  1. obsoleteAn act of recounting something; a narrative, a recital, a rehearsal.

    With this sad hersall of his heavy stresse / The warlike Damzell was empassiond sore […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

Apheretic alteration of rehearsal.

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APA

hearsal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hearsal

MLA

“hearsal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hearsal. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hearsal,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hearsal.

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