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foreprizing

foreprizing is the present participle and gerund of foreprize.

Meaning of foreprize

Verb

foreprize (third-person singular simple present foreprizes, present participle foreprizing, simple past and past participle foreprized)

  1. (obsolete) To assume, take for granted; to provide for beforehand; to anticipate.
    • […] God hath foreprized things of the greatest weight, and hath therein precisely defined, as well that which euery man must performe, as that which no man may attempt […]1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, London: William Stansbye, published 1622, Book 5, p. 381

Questions about foreprizing

What is foreprizing the present participle and gerund of?
Foreprizing is the present participle and gerund of foreprize.

Words near foreprizing in the dictionary

  1. foreprism
  2. foreprisms
  3. foreprize
  4. foreprized
  5. foreprizes
  6. foreprizing
  7. forepromise
  8. forepromised
  9. forepromises
  10. forepromising
  11. foreprovide

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