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Definition of Foredating
1. foredate [v] - See also: foredate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foredating
Literary usage of Foredating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Writer's Recollections by Humphry Ward (1919)
"He replies to his little son :— Is it that aught prophetic stirred Thy spirit to
that ominous word, foredating in thy childish mind The fortune of thy ..."
2. Sharps and Flats by Eugene Field (1900)
"... And rapturous murmurs in the crowd Did presently attest That of the chestnuts
uttered there This chestnut was without compare — foredating all the rest. ..."
3. Parochial Sermons by Edward Bouverie Pusey (1873)
"Its Saviour begins it with suffering and humiliation, the first shedding of His
redeeming Blood, foredating Its full outpouring on Calvary, and His humbling ..."
4. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and by John Clark Ridpath (1903)
"But Peyton, foredating Milton, places Eden elsewhere than on Mount Amara. He is
rather inclined to give it a more definite location than Milton has ventured ..."
5. Life of Mrs. S. J. C. Downs: Or, Ten Years at the Head of the Woman's by Jacob Bentley Graw (1892)
""One faith, one hope was ours—the faith That can the cloudiest night illume, That
seeth the unseen ; the hope That looks into the joy to come, foredating ..."
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