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forespoke

forespoke is the simple past of forespeak.

Meaning of forespeak

Verb

forespeak (third-person singular simple present forespeaks, present participle forespeaking, simple past forespoke or (archaic) forespake, past participle forespoken)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To foretell, to predict.
    • Rejoice sister, for the same word that forespaketh trouble, doth certify us of the glory consequent.c. 1552, Thomas M‘Crie, quoting John Knox, “Period III. From His Release from the French Galleys, Anno 1549, to His Departure out of England, Anno 1554.”, in The Life of John Knox: Containing...

Words formed from forespoke

Questions about forespoke

What is forespoke the simple past of?
Forespoke is the simple past of forespeak.

Words near forespoke in the dictionary

  1. forespend
  2. forespending
  3. forespends
  4. forespent
  5. forespin
  6. forespoke
  7. forespoken
  8. forespore
  9. forespores
  10. forespread
  11. forespring

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forespoke (page history and authors); forespeak (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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