Read full poem →One thing yet there is, that none
Hearing ere its chime be done
Knows not well the sweetest one
Dictionary Entry
The ability to perceive sound, or a session in court where a judge listens to a case.
In a Sentence
“The student's excellent hearing allowed her to easily understand the lecture, while the defendant attended a hearing in court.”
Origin
Old English 'hērung', from 'hieran' (to hear).
Common Phrases
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Antonyms
Poetry examples for “hearing”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Veiled with vapour and void of sun;
Nought in sight or in fancied hearing
Now less mighty than time or fate.
Read full poem →No place for sound within their hearing,
No room to hope, no time for fearing,
Read full poem →Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris
After Hearing a Waltz by Bartok
Clear, with Light, Variable Winds
Read full poem →Folded in Sabine recesses the valley and villa of Horace:--
So not seeing I sang; so now--Nor seeing, nor hearing,
Neither by waterfall lulled, nor folded in sylvan embraces,
Read full poem →made them impatient of the sourer ways of education, have from the atten-
tive hearing tnese pieces, got ground in point of wit and carriage of the
most severely-employed students, while these recreations were digested
Read full poem →timidity, he says, he succeeded beyond his most sanguine
expectations : but having some property, and hearing that
a legacy had been left him by a relation, he determined to
Read full poem →You in the coonskin cap at a log house door hearing a
lone wolf howl,
Read full poem →With seeing, nor our ears be filled
With hearing: yet we plant and build
And buy and make our borders wide;
Read full poem →With privy signs, and talk dissembling truths?
Hearing her to be sick, I thither ran,
But with my rival sick she was not than.