foreday

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From Middle English *foreday (attested only in plural foredais), equivalent to fore- +‎ day.

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foreday (plural foredays)

  1. (in the plural, chiefly poetic, archaic) Past or former days
    • 1847 [c. 1200], Frederic Madden, Layamon's Brut, Or Chronicle of Britain, translation of original by Layamon:
      This same token should be of Luces the emperor, and of the Senators [of Rome], who with him came from Rome [thither]; ' and in the same wise, they there gan fall;' what Merlin in foredays said, all they it found there, as they did ere, and subsequently well everywhere; ere Arthur were born, Merlin it all [all it is] predicted.
    • 1897, Dugald Ferguson, Poems of the Heart, page 79:
      When the English horsemen shivered
      On the foredays' glorious strife,
      By his spearmen, and De Clifford
      Yielded both the wreath and life.
    • 2016, David Udo, “The Last Days”, in The Ripples:
      We bend our knees to the ground
      Seeking refuge from the One on High
      To redeem us from the
      Prophesies of the fore-days
      Consigning these daysafter
      The last days, as the evil days.
  2. (dialectal) The earlier part of the day; the morning or early afternoon.

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