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fore-handedly

fore-handedly is the alternative form of forehandedly.

Meaning of forehandedly

Adverb

forehandedly (comparative more forehandedly, superlative most forehandedly)

  1. Prudently, with thrift and foresight.
    • All that we have done comes as the result of a certain insistence that since we must work it is better to work intelligently and forehandedly.1922, Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther, My Life and Work, Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., →OCLC
  2. Ahead of time, in advance.
    • Nevertheless, because of the frequent transposition between the two sexes of the traits supposedly specific of each -- a far more frequent transposition than the conventional division between the sexes affords opportunity to observe, the woman being often the more aggressive, the man the more...2013, Trigant Burrow, The Social Basis Of Consciousness: A Study In Organic Psychology, →ISBN

Forms of fore-handedly

comparativemore fore-handedly
superlativemost fore-handedly

Origin of fore-handedly

From fore-handed + -ly.

Questions about fore-handedly

What is fore-handedly the alternative form of?
Fore-handedly is the alternative form of forehandedly.

Words near fore-handedly in the dictionary

  1. fore-give
  2. fore-given
  3. fore-glories
  4. fore-glory
  5. fore-handed
  6. fore-handedly
  7. fore-handedness
  8. Fore-Mass
  9. fore-mast
  10. fore-masts
  11. fore-milk

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