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 Clemence Housman
“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
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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wherefore a woeful wight am I, foredone and all distraught for love.
From Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol
It was as though, weary and foredone, he dismissed the young fellows to the logic of events—to life itself—for response, explanation, or punishment.
From Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan
He had been overtaken in iniquity; he was foredone.
From Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. by Norman Duncan
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