Definition of Forefended

1. Verb. (past of forefend) ¹

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Definition of Forefended

1. forefend [v] - See also: forefend

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forefended

foredooming
foredooms
foredraft
foreface
forefaces
forefather
forefathers
forefeel
forefeeling
forefeels
forefeet
forefelt
forefence
forefences
forefend
forefended (current term)
forefending
forefends
forefinger
forefingers
forefixed
foreflow
forefoot
forefooted
forefooting
forefront
forefronts
foregain
foregainst
foregame

Literary usage of Forefended

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Diary from Dixie by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1905)
"It is prisoners for them that we can not spare, or prisoners for us that we may not be able to feed: that is so much to be " forefended," as Keitt says. ..."

2. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1899)
"There are others, too, though careful observers find few, and they are easily foreseen and forefended and not to be expected in the hands of reputable ..."

3. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"Whether it be forefended by God's Law, that (if it so Fortune that all the bishops and Priests of a Region were Dead, ..."

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