Definition of "hearers" []

• Plural form of hearer. (noun)

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• "When he promised friendship for the future, he called his hearers to witness how true a friend he had been to the French, who had deceived him and given him reason to transfer his friendship."
• "Without directly referring to it, he called his hearers 'attention to the forgery every time he quoted a document by his elaborate explanation that he believed, unless there was some mistake on the part of those with whom the matter originated and which he had been unable to detect, that this was correct."
• "Note, The number of fruitless hearers is very great, even of those who heard Christ himself."