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Definition of Hearers
1. hearer [n] - See also: hearer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hearers
Literary usage of Hearers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"Their power in speaking was admired, but still it was thought human: their
eloquence warmed and ravished the hearers, but still it was thought the voice of ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"styled his hearers by the name of Grinde- ! tonians (fie), by the name of a town in
... hearers, but they hear no resemblance to his own teaching. ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... and attended by so many that the largest auditorium could hardly hold all his
hearers— as well as by his sermons and his per- 2. ..."
4. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1847)
"The effect of this invective upon the hearers was Effect greater than almost any
thing we read of in the history of hearers.'6 English eloquence. ..."
5. History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1851)
"But the place was soon crowded, and as the num her of hearers kept increasing,
the assembly was transferred to the great hall of the castle, ..."
6. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"The preacher also said privately to some of his hearers, that I had broken them,
and overthrown them. • sins, and died for them. And if they came to walk in ..."
7. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, Alexander Pope (1760)
"... Are loft on hearers that our merits know. But let us hafte—Night rolls the
hours away, 295 The red'ning Orient ..."
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