[f. FORTH adv. + PUTTING vbl. sb.]
1. The action of putting forth.
1640. Bp. Reynolds, Passions, xxv. 254, heading. Of the Effects of Hope: Stability of Mind: Wearinesse, arising not out of Weaknesse, Impatience, Suspition, Curiosity; but out of Want, Contention, and forth-putting of the Mind.
1833. Chalmers, Const. Man (1835), II. II. i. 163. Sufficient to mark an obvious contrivance and forth-putting of skill in the adjustment of the systems to each other.
1875. Maclaren, Serm., Ser. II. ii. 24–5. A continuous forth-putting of power, which it is, perhaps, not over-fanciful to regard as dimly set forth here in a twofold form—namely, work and word.
2. U.S. Obtrusive behavior.
1861. Lowell, Biglow P., Poems, 1890, II. 216. To secure myself against any imputation of unseemly forthputting.
