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Definition of Forespoken
1. forespeak [v] - See also: forespeak
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forespoken
Literary usage of Forespoken
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"... and most scandalous wicked men, that have fulfilled all the prophesies of the
Scripture, which have forespoken of the coming of the great Antichrist. ..."
2. A Selection from the Writings of the Reformers and Early Protestant Divines by Legh Richmond (1817)
"Or as St. Augustine sometime said to the Manichees, " Ye forbid not copulation;
but .as it was long ago forespoken by the Apostle, indeed .ye forbid very ..."
3. Lean's Collectanea by Vincent Stuckey Lean, Julia Lucy Woodward (1903)
"Gauden, Tears of the Church, p. 337. 1659. In all his praises he is the most
forespoken and unfortunate under heaven, and those whom he ..."
4. Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness by Gaelic Society of Inverness (1894)
"This idea also prevails in Orkney and Shetland, where praise of the description
above indicated receives the name " forespoken.'' If one says to a child ..."
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