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forelent

forelent is the simple past and past participle of forelend.

Meaning of forelend

Verb

forelend (third-person singular simple present forelends, present participle forelending, simple past and past participle forelent)

  1. (archaic, transitive) to lend in advance
    • As if that life to losse they had forelent1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about forelent

What is forelent the simple past and past participle of?
Forelent is the simple past and past participle of forelend.

Words near forelent in the dictionary

  1. forelegged
  2. forelegs
  3. forelend
  4. forelending
  5. forelends
  6. forelent
  7. forelet
  8. forelets
  9. foreletting
  10. forelevel
  11. forelevels

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