Usage examples (31)

• Either the hearer is appalled at the idea (and voices some of the remarks about land-grabbing, crime, etc., etc.) or the hearer is really excited with us about it.
• The hearer is responding from his point of view (location).
• The effect of words upon the hearer is a mnemic phenomena, since it depends upon the past experience which gave him understanding of the words.
• Papias, like Polycarp, was a "hearer" of John the Divine and Apostle.