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Definition of Foregoes
1. forego [v] - See also: forego
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foregoes
Literary usage of Foregoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"And f/om the mint-plant in the In puffs of balm the night-air blows The perfume
which the day foregoes. And on the pure horizon far. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the by Tryon Edwards (1908)
"Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge,
and dares to forgive an injury.—EH Chapín. It is more easy to forgive the ..."
3. Historical Gleanings on the Memorable Field of Naseby by Henry Lockinge (1830)
"foregoes ; and whilst he paces its interior in the expectation of encountering
the crumbling monument of some decapitated Templar reposing on his granite ..."
4. The Aitareya Brahmanam of the Rigveda: Containing the Earliest Speculations by Bombay (India : State). Educational Dept (1863)
"When he thus foregoes the ... he foregoes the vital airs of the sacrificer (deprives
him of his life), and when he foregoes the A ..."
5. History and Criticism of the Labor Theory of Value in English Political Economy by Albert Conser Whitaker (1904)
"But he continues : " Unless, indeed, for the sake of generality in the expression,
we include the profit which the wine merchant foregoes during the five ..."
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