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foreconceives

foreconceives is the third-person singular simple present indicative of foreconceive.

Meaning of foreconceive

Verb

foreconceive (third-person singular simple present foreconceives, present participle foreconceiving, simple past and past participle foreconceived)

  1. (transitive) To conceive or imagine beforehand; preconceive.
    • I found my selfe glutted and ful of drink by the overmuch swilling that my imagination had fore-conceived.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Questions about foreconceives

What is foreconceives the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Foreconceives is the third-person singular simple present indicative of foreconceive.

Words near foreconceives in the dictionary

  1. forecomes
  2. forecoming
  3. forecomings
  4. foreconceive
  5. foreconceived
  6. foreconceives
  7. foreconceiving
  8. foreconception
  9. foreconceptions
  10. forecondemn
  11. forecondemnation

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