forwardness

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If this Project, which is in a good Forwardness, and carried on apace, be ever finished, St. Peter’s Church will be possessed of a Treasure the more precious because there will be none like it.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

Forwardness is the soul of all progress and advancement.

From Zionism and Anti-Semitism Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil by Nordau, Max Simon

Forwardness A voice that is pitched back in the throat is dark, sombre, and unattractive.

From The Art of Public Speaking by Carnagey, Dale

Forwardness, or a disposition to be conspicuous, is unseemly, especially in a young person.

From A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister by Newcomb, Harvey

And I observe, Cubbin, you make your Shepherd Colly, inconstant; and have an Aversion to his former Sweet-heart Soflin, on account of her Frankness, and too great Forwardness.

From A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) by Purney, Thomas