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
Young women are bleaching linen; They leap in the grass anear.
From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine
O Palinure, what godless mind hath gotten hold of thee, That thou the grim Well-willers' stream and Stygian flood wouldst see Unburied, and unbidden still the brim wilt draw anear?
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by William Morris
I didn't know you till you pushed anear me.
From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various
From west, from east, from north and south resounds, Afar and now anear, from all thy bounds, And no surcease, "With thee be peace!"
From Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Gustav Karpeles
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