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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What do you think he seen fornenst him, sitting at the other side of the fire, but Father Dwyer himself.
From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever
“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
An' there's St. Joseph over in the ward fornenst this, an' St. Elizabeth an' the Holy Mother above.
From North, South and over the Sea by M.E. (Mrs. Francis Blundell) Francis
"But teddin fer yew nor I, Jacob, tu go fornenst His will."
From The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 by A. R. (Augustus Robert) Buckland
I will show that are proposition is unconstitutionable, inlegal, and fornenst the compact.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various
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