foreconceiving

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From foreconceive.

Verb[edit]

foreconceiving

  1. present participle and gerund of foreconceive

Adjective[edit]

foreconceiving (comparative more foreconceiving, superlative most foreconceiving)

  1. Conveiving in advance; preconceiving.
    • 1994, William Craft, Labyrinth of Desire:
      This fits the Defence of Poetry's preference for the foreconceiving act over the work it yields, a work valued primarily as the groundplot for still further invention by the reader.