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foregrasp

foregrasp noun: a prior cognizance or understanding; an awareness or comprehension beforehand.

Noun

foregrasp (uncountable)

  1. A prior cognizance or understanding; an awareness or comprehension beforehand.
    • Each of these terms is the product of the irony which comes from having obtained a foregrasp of mundaneity while attempting to articulate mundaneity within the idiom which mundaneity supports.2010, Melvin Pollner, Mundane Reason: Reality in Everyday and Sociological Discourse

Verb

foregrasp (third-person singular simple present foregrasps, present participle foregrasping, simple past and past participle foregrasped)

  1. (transitive) To grasp beforehand.
    • Thy great deliverance is a greater thing Than purest imagination can foregrasp; A thing beyond all conscious hungering, Beyond all hope that makes the poet sing.2007, George MacDonald, Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul

Forms of foregrasp

third-person singular presentforegrasps
present participleforegrasping
past participleforegrasped
pastforegrasped

Origin of foregrasp

From fore- + grasp.

Questions about foregrasp

What does foregrasp mean?
Foregrasp means a prior cognizance or understanding; an awareness or comprehension beforehand.
What part of speech is foregrasp?
Foregrasp can be a noun or a verb.

Words near foregrasp in the dictionary

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

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