fornenst
Americanpreposition
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next to; near to.
They walked fornenst one another down the sidewalk.
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against; facing; opposite.
preposition
Etymology
Origin of fornenst
from Scottish, from fore 1 + anenst a variant of archaic anent
Example Sentences
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“It’s now you call me loud enough,” siz I, “ye wouldn’t shout that way when ye saw me rowlin’ like a tub in a mill-race the other day fornenst your faces.”
From Humours of Irish Life by Various
Howandiver, I mustn't forget that we left his Riv'rence and his Holiness sitting fornenst one another in the parlor ov the Vatican, jist afther mixing their second tumbler.
From Stories of Comedy by Johnson, Rossiter
I will show that are proposition is unconstitutionable, inlegal, and fornenst the compact.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various
Then thur’s the knots to kum off o’ thet, though fornenst ’em thur’s bridles.
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Reid, Mayne
"And when the north is fornenst you, as you say, is the east on your right or your left hand?"
From Stories of Comedy by Johnson, Rossiter
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