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Definition of Forefends
1. forefend [v] - See also: forefend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forefends
Literary usage of Forefends
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1913)
"Рог the wise Leander forefends, makes ready beforehand; he creates opportunities,
while longshoremen lounge waiting for chances to befall. ..."
2. Civilization in the United States: An Inquiry by Thirty Americans by Harold E. Stearns (1922)
"Such openness of interest forefends the possibility of James' founding a school
of philosophy. It also renders all his younger contemporaries in some ..."
3. Messiah by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Georg Heinrich C. Egestorff (1826)
"... Whom heaven forefends and succours! Do not thou 605 Condemn the Righteous;
lo, on his behalf, A most tremendous vision from the gods . ..."
4. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"And this is to bo done, by the discriminating principle ; it fulfills the intention,
and it forefends tho recurrence of that danger from which you have once ..."
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