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Definition of Forewent
1. forego [v] - See also: forego
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forewent
Literary usage of Forewent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"forewent, preterite of to forego, to renounce. Writers and speakers still say, "
I forego the pleasure," but use a roundabout form of expression rather than ..."
2. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1917)
"insist submarine was firing to kill until it came close up when it forewent that.
Submarine forcibly took master on board it as prisoner or hostage. ..."
3. For the Oracles of God, Four Orations: For Judgment to Come, an Argument, in by Edward Irving (1824)
"The power that could have humbled his foes he forewent, the power that could have
revenged his wrongs, that could have nourished his famished body, ..."
4. Parochial Sermons by Edward Bouverie Pusey (1873)
"He forewent not things without Him only; He forewent Himself. He, the Creator,
not c S. John i. 14. * Ps. viii. 5. • S. Cyril Al. Thes. p. ..."
5. The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets: Never Before in Any Language Truly by Homer, George Chapman, William Cooke Taylor (1843)
"This order'd; swift Meriones went, and forewent* his king ; Till both arriv'd where
... Yet both one goddess form'd, * forewent—"went before; outstripped. ..."
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