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Foregone   /fˈɔrgˈɔn/   Listen
Foregone

adjective
1.
Well in the past; former.  Synonyms: bygone, bypast, departed, gone.  "Dreams of foregone times" , "Sweet memories of gone summers" , "Relics of a departed era"



Forego

verb
(past forewent; past part. foregone; pres. part. foregoing)
1.
Be earlier in time; go back further.  Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forgo, precede, predate.
2.
Do without or cease to hold or adhere to.  Synonyms: dispense with, foreswear, forgo, relinquish, waive.  "Relinquish the old ideas"
3.
Lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime.  Synonyms: forfeit, forgo, give up, throw overboard, waive.  "Forfeited property"



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"Foregone" Quotes from Famous Books



... remarked laughingly to Shiel, as they stepped into the street. "But if faith is essential to success, I fear failure, as far as I am concerned, is a foregone conclusion. I know ...
— The Sorcery Club • Elliott O'Donnell

... place he has no right to occupy, and to associate on terms of equality with men of tastes and habits and ambitions totally above his own. It was in this spirit he remembered Nina's chance expression, 'I don't suppose you want money!' There could be no other meaning in the phrase than some foregone conclusion about his being a man of fortune. Of course she acquired this notion from those around her. As a stranger to Ireland, all she knew, or thought she knew, had been conveyed by others. 'I don't suppose ...
— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever

... intimately bound together by the one passion of clannish allegiance to the family past. She knew that Rowan's attentions had continued so long and had been so marked, that her grandmother had accepted marriage between them as a foregone conclusion, and in letters had disseminated these prophecies through the family connection. Other letters had even come back to Isabel, containing evidence only too plain that Rowan had been discussed and accepted in domestic councils. Against all inward protests of delicacy, she had been ...
— The Mettle of the Pasture • James Lane Allen

... recollected the prediction of the Indian at daybreak, and were struck with what appeared to be its fulfilment. They called to mind, also, a long catalogue of foregone presentiments and predictions made at various times by the Delaware, and, in their superstitious credulity, began to consider him a veritable seer; without thinking how natural it was to predict danger, and how likely to have ...
— The Adventures of Captain Bonneville - Digested From His Journal • Washington Irving

... to hear the details of this battle as far as I saw them, for I think they contain lessons that may be of great service to him. That he would engage in the war was a foregone conclusion from the first; and with his means and ability he may take a very important part in ...
— His Sombre Rivals • E. P. Roe


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