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forestating

forestating noun: a stating in advance. Also the present participle and gerund of forestate.

Noun

forestating (uncountable)

  1. A stating in advance
    • When the forecasts or indications thus published are examined in reference to accuracy of preannouueement of the state of the weather only (not the forestating, as is the custom, the changes of the barometer, thermometer, and average wind-direction to happen), the average percentage of accuracy is...1878, Annual Report of the Secretary of War - Volume 1
    • In the next sentence we have an acknowledged parenthesis, a forestating of a logical objection or question: 'There was a succession of days, at all events, when contact with him—and in its immediate effect, as if it could produce no other— […]2013, Roger Gard, Henry James

Also used as

forestating is also the present participle and gerund of forestate.

Questions about forestating

What does forestating mean?
Forestating means a stating in advance.
What part of speech is forestating?
Forestating is a noun.

Words near forestating in the dictionary

  1. Forestas
  2. forestate
  3. forestated
  4. forestatement
  5. forestatements
  6. forestating
  7. forestation
  8. forestations
  9. forestaves
  10. forestay
  11. forestayed

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