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forepast

forepast adjective: that has passed; bygone.

Adjective

forepast (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) That has passed; bygone.
    • Which my liege Lady seeing, thought it best
      […]all forepast displeasures to repeale.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • Of that condition is this other counsell, which Philosophie giveth, onely to keepe forepast [translating passé] felicities in memorie, and thence blot out such griefes as we have felt[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    bygone, foregone

Synonyms of forepast

Origin of forepast

From fore- + past.

Questions about forepast

What does forepast mean?
Forepast means that has passed; bygone.
What part of speech is forepast?
Forepast is an adjective.

Words near forepast in the dictionary

  1. foreparts
  2. foreparty
  3. forepassage
  4. forepassages
  5. forepassed
  6. forepast
  7. forepaw
  8. forepaws
  9. forepay
  10. forepayment
  11. forepayments

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