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Definition of Forefending
1. forefend [v] - See also: forefend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forefending
Literary usage of Forefending
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1870)
"... and, forefending the days when practical and scientific education will succeed
in edging out the present study of the classical languages, ..."
2. Popular Science Monthly (1906)
"When this is accomplished the greatest economy is effected; first in the limiting
of suffering and the progress of disease, and second, in forefending the ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1879)
"... nor yet on the shrewd and prudent forefending of scandal with which she provides
for Ulysses' independent entrance into the city : room has to be found ..."
4. The Advocate of Peace by American Peace Society (1902)
"If the remark is true, as I think it is, obviously the surest mode of forefending
war between two countries is by fostering intercourse between their ..."
5. The Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus, Thomas George Tucker (1908)
"a mouth, bruited by the folk throughout the town in threatening murmurs and in
lamentations ; the which may forefending Zeus, true to his name, ..."
6. Wesley, and Methodism by Isaac Taylor (1851)
"close, his pulpit energies were engaged in repressing ill tendencies, in forefending
apprehended mischiefs, and in righting his societies where they were ..."
7. The Cost of Competition: An Effort at the Understanding of Familiar Facts by Sidney Armor Reeve (1906)
"... hastening and facilitating growth, forefending stunting or distortion by too
violent contact with resistance to expansion, in Part Two. ..."
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