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call forth

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verb

  1. (tr, adverb) to cause (something) to come into action or existence

    she called forth all her courage

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Call forth the mourners from far and wide.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

Good my Lord of Rome Call forth your Sooth-sayer: As I slept, me thought Great Iupiter vpon his Eagle back'd Appear'd to me, with other sprightly shewes Of mine owne Kindred.

From Cymbeline by Shakespeare, William

Call forth your stalwart men,   Workers in brass and steel!

From War Poetry of the South by Various

Call forth my dwarf, my eunuch, and my fool, And let them make me sport.

From Volpone; Or, the Fox by Jonson, Ben

Call forth my household servants: let's to-night Be bounteous at our meal.—

From Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare, William

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