forepast
Adjective
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Adjective
forepast (not comparable)
- (obsolete) That has passed; bygone.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.8:
- Which my liege Lady seeing, thought it best / […] all forepast displeasures to repeale.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:
- Of that condition is this other counsell, which Philosophie giveth, onely to keepe forepast {{transterm
- c.1605, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, First Folio 1623:
- Take him away, / My fore-past proofes, how ere the matter fall / Shall taze my feares of little vanitie, / Hauing vainly fear'd too little.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.8:
- (that has passed) bygone, foregone; see also Thesaurus:past
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