forepassed
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of forepassed
Example Sentences
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I have scene divers, by their death, either in good or evill, give reputation to all their forepassed life.
From Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian by Various
It is the master-day, the day that judgeth all others: it is the day, saith an auncient Writer, that must judge of all my forepassed yeares.
From Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian by Various
And all the plagues that damned furies feele For their forepassed bold iniquities, Afflict you both for thus preventing me!
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
He tells the proud and insolent, that they are but Abjects, and humbles them at the instant ; makes them crie, complaine, and repent; yea, even to hate their forepassed happinesse.
From Thomas Hariot, the Mathematician, the Philosopher and the Scholar by Henry Stevens
Poliphilus, forget now, and wype out of thy remembrance all forepassed griefes, occursiue troubles, pensiue conceites, and ouergone daungers, because that I am assured of thy forthwith full contentment of desire.
From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Robert Dallington
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