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foresing

foresing verb: to sing beforehand or in advance.

Verb

foresing (third-person singular simple present foresings, present participle foresinging, simple past foresang, past participle foresung)

  1. (transitive) To sing beforehand or in advance.
    • Jacob with the patriarchs (Himself their patriarch) through all his own Life's space the gladdest times of Christ foresang By words, act, virtue, toil.1870, Alexander Roberts, Sir James Donaldson, Ante-Nicene Christian Library
    • God grant that I as thou May still at heart have Spring, Still may the fair To-be feel through the niggard Now And in the Winter-night the summer-day foresing!1908, John Payne, Carol and Cadence: New Poems

Forms of foresing

third-person singular presentforesings
present participleforesinging
pastforesang
past participleforesung

Origin of foresing

From fore- + sing.

Questions about foresing

What does foresing mean?
Foresing means to sing beforehand or in advance.
What part of speech is foresing?
Foresing is a verb.
What is the past tense of foresing?
The past tense of foresing is foresang.

Words near foresing in the dictionary

  1. foresignified
  2. foresignifies
  3. foresignify
  4. foresignifying
  5. foresigns
  6. foresing
  7. foresinger
  8. foresister
  9. foresisters
  10. foresit
  11. foresitter

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