forepast

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English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ past.

Adjective

forepast (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) That has passed; bygone.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.8:
      Which my liege Lady seeing, thought it best / [] all forepast displeasures to repeale.
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    • c.1605, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, First Folio 1623:
      Take him away, / My fore-past proofes, how ere the matter fall / Shall taze my feares of little vanitie, / Hauing vainly fear'd too little.

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