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foregranted

foregranted adjective: granted in advance.

Adjective

foregranted (comparative more foregranted, superlative most foregranted)

  1. Granted in advance.
    • […] together with all interest in all debts and choses in action of every description whatsoever: To have and to hold the above and foregranted portion, interest or share in the said estate to the said John B. Latham, his heirs and assigns forever, […]1882, Arkansas. Supreme Court, George W Williams, Arkansas Reports
  2. Presumed.
    • There always seems to me to be something concealed, a foregranted assumption, in the ecclesiastical mind, over which one stumbles.”1916, The North American Review

Forms of foregranted

comparativemore foregranted
superlativemost foregranted

Origin of foregranted

From fore- + granted.

Questions about foregranted

What does foregranted mean?
Foregranted means granted in advance.
What part of speech is foregranted?
Foregranted is an adjective.

Words near foregranted in the dictionary

  1. foregone
  2. foregone conclusion
  3. foregone conclusions
  4. foregoneness
  5. foregrant
  6. foregranted
  7. foregrants
  8. foregrasp
  9. foregrip
  10. foregrips
  11. foreground

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