anear
Americanadverb
preposition
adverb
Etymology
Origin of anear
1725–35; a- (semantically empty, perhaps by analogy with afar; cf. apast) + near
Example Sentences
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Or indeed, art thou beside me, Weeping, darling, close anear?
From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine
“It would pay you well,” persisted the old fence; “say about seven to ten thousand dollars each every year, and you needn’t come anear it—just take your dividends every week, and that’s all.”
From The Boy Broker Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street by Frank Andrew Munsey
Then, aye, then he shall kneel low, With the red-roan steed anear him, Which shall seem to understand, Till I answer, 'Rise and go!
From School Reading by Grades Sixth Year by James Baldwin
This, as we know, is the intellectual sense, the sentinel that guards the body, keeping a look-out for what is afar as for what is anear.
From Children's Ways by James Sully
I would not be laid anear you at the Seven Churches, I to get Ireland without a divide!
From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various
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