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foretime

American  
[fawr-tahym, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌtaɪm, ˈfoʊr- /

noun

  1. former or past time; the past.


foretime British  
/ ˈfɔːˌtaɪm /

noun

  1. time already gone; the past

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of foretime

First recorded in 1530–40; fore- + time

Example Sentences

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It has shown some reasonable basis for the most superstitious aberrations of the foretime.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

So he sat and sang, like unto a seer out of the foretime to look upon; Jeremiah, the Ancient, seemed to have risen out of his grave.

From Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by William Savage Johnson

Two great anatomists built up the structure of scientific human anatomy on the rather good foundation that had been laid on animal anatomy in the foretime.

From Education: How Old The New by James J. Walsh

Vast was the buried and antique lore that was his, for the foretime Made him master of earlier customs as well as of newer.

From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Frank Justus Miller

The feel of cool linen comes like the caress of a forgotten sweetheart, the tinkle of glass and silver are so many chiming fairy bells inviting him back into the foretime days.

From The Silver Horde by Rex Ellingwood Beach

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