forewarn
verb (used with object)
to warn in advance.
has forewarned
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present perfectof forewarn (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Cyprian has forewarned us that even antiquity is not authority, but may be only vetustas erroris—the old age of error.
From George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God by Arthur T. (Arthur Tappan) Pierson
Hence 'tis, that the Apostle has forewarned us, in 2 Tim.
From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Cotton Mather
When the mentor of a man's common sense has forewarned him that he is being shadowed by an inevitable spectre, and when that spectre steps suddenly out into his path, he should not be astonished.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
