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call forth

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call forth (third-person singular simple present calls forth, present participle calling forth, simple past and past participle called forth)

  1. (transitive) To summon, to call to speak.
    They were called forth as witnesses.
  2. (transitive) To induce, inspire.
    • 1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 763:
      The treatment of an untreatable condition such as rheumatoid arthritis calls forth, as they might well say in Tipperary, great therapeutic skill and expertise.