foredo
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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What was in them and his face to make her afraid? eyes and face of a lover foredoing speech.
From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence
“But oh,” they sang together, “But oh, both day and night, My heart’s delight, Must one day leave foredone All might, all gone.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
He had been overtaken in iniquity; he was foredone.
From Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. by Duncan, Norman
Why duplicate it by the tedious unrolling, inch by inch, of the foredone reality?
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William
Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; Whilst the heavy ploughman snores All with weary task foredone, &c.
From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Look therewithal on those two burgs with broken walls foredone!
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William
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