aforequoted

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From afore- +‎ quoted.

Adjective[edit]

aforequoted (not comparable)

  1. Cited before; quoted in an earlier part of the treatise or essay.
    Synonym: (archaic) forequoted
    • 2014 September 8, Kate Finnigan, “Emmanuelle Alt: ’I don’t want to be an image’”, in The Daily Telegraph[1], London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-05-11:
      Alt is also proud of the cover of last year's beauty issue featuring Lauren Hutton, Stephanie Seymour and Daria Werbowy, 20 years between each woman. "I think it's great to have a woman who's 70 on the cover," she says of Hutton. "In France we have a lot of actresses who are ageing and accept their age, which I think is a good example." This leads her to her aforequoted line about weapons of seduction.
    • 2015, Robert Christgau, Going Into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: Dey St., →ISBN, page 197:
      So he assigned me a rock-is-dead piece, I explained why it wasn't in the aforequoted seven-thousand-word essay, it was rejected, and after eight installments Secular Music was dead instead.