forehandedly

See also: fore-handedly

English

Etymology

forehanded +‎ -ly

Adverb

forehandedly (comparative more forehandedly, superlative most forehandedly)

1. Prudently, with thrift and foresight.
   • 1922, Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther, My Life and Work, Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., →OCLC:

     All that we have done comes as the result of a certain insistence that since we must work it is better to work intelligently and forehandedly.

2. Ahead of time, in advance.
   • 2013, Trigant Burrow, The Social Basis Of Consciousness: A Study In Organic Psychology, →ISBN:

     Nevertheless, because of the frequent transposition between the two sexes of the traits supposedly specific of each -- a far more frequent transposition than the conventional division between the sexes affords opportunity to observe, the woman being often the more aggressive, the man the more retired of the two—to assign forehandedly one or the other complement to one or the other sex is arbitrary and without warrent.