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forelives

forelives is the plural of forelife.

forelives is the third-person singular simple present indicative of forelive.

Meaning of forelife

Noun

forelife (plural forelives)

  1. A former or previous life
    • [...] Murasaki, who stood before me and with an expression of perfect joy said to me, 'Buddha and Heaven have taken pity on me; for the life on earth, life in Senland is vouchsafed me, a home in Horai is accorded me; in the forelife of the Princess, in the forelife of my lord, Yamabito, was the...1965, Masamochi Ishikawa, The magical carpenter of Japan
  2. (rare) Early or primitive life; protozoa
    • Because all they hoped to create was the lowest kind of life; in their own words, the protozoon, or forelife; whereas Babbage created the highest kind of life; as it should seem, the afterlife, [...]1910, Allen Upward, The New Word

Meaning of forelive

Verb

forelive (third-person singular simple present forelives, present participle foreliving, simple past and past participle forelived)

  1. To live or come before; precede
    • […] Or if I seek the visitation, then He fills me, and my foul is carried on, And then do I forelive the race of men, So that the things that will be, are to me […]1806, The Edinburgh Review Or Critical Journal

Questions about forelives

What is forelives the plural of?
Forelives is the plural of forelife.

Words near forelives in the dictionary

  1. forelimb
  2. forelimbs
  3. foreline
  4. forelive
  5. forelived
  6. forelives
  7. foreliving
  8. Forelle
  9. forelled
  10. forellenstein
  11. forellensteins

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