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aforegiven

aforegiven adjective: given or provided previously.

Adjective

aforegiven (not comparable)

  1. Given or provided previously.
    • Rather than reviewing the literature in detail, I will begin by noting that the aforegiven partial and superficial overview suggests that estrangement happens when people cease to own something, which might be taken to imply that all estrangement presupposes the institution of private property.2019 March 1, Boris Hennig, “Self-Knowledge, Estrangement, and Social Metabolism”, in Monthly Review, New York, N.Y.: Monthly Review Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2023

Origin of aforegiven

From afore- + given.

Questions about aforegiven

What does aforegiven mean?
Aforegiven means given or provided previously.
What part of speech is aforegiven?
Aforegiven is an adjective.

Words near aforegiven in the dictionary

  1. aforedescribed
  2. aforedetermined
  3. aforediscussed
  4. aforeenumerated
  5. aforeexplained
  6. aforegiven
  7. aforegoing
  8. aforegranted
  9. aforehan'
  10. aforehand
  11. aforeidentified

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