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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If it wasn't for the contract I have for the soldiers' barracks and the sergeant's good word, I wouldn't go anear it.
From Contemporary One-Act Plays by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
O, hark, Ringing anear, Before the world? ... was God ...
From The Lord of Misrule And Other Poems by Spencer Baird Nichols
So, doctor, for the love of peace, don't you go anear the cottage.
From The Doctor's Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
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
Field breezes mingle with the oil and tar, And with a shudder I behold anear The solid weed-hung timbers of the pier.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, November 18, 1893 by Various
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