go forth

English

Etymology

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

Verb

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

  1. To move oneself forward or onward
  2. To depart from a place; to set out.
    • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
      "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. []"
  3. To be divulged or made generally known; to spread; to emanate.

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