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verb

Forego v. t. (past forewent; past part. foregone; pres. part. foregoing)

To quit; to relinquish; to leave. "Stay at the third cup, or forego the place."

To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach, or anticipated. "All my patrimony,, If need be, I am ready to forego." "Thy lovers must their promised heaven forego." "(He) never forewent an opportunity of honest profit." Note: Forgo is the better spelling etymologically, but the word has been confused with Forego, to go before.

Forego v. t. (past forewent; past part. foregone; pres. part. foregoing) To go before; to precede; used especially in the present and past participles. "Pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone." "For which the very mother's face forewent The mother's special patience."

Foregone conclusion, a conclusion which has preceded argument or examination; a predetermined conclusion.

adjective

foregone adj. Past; used of time; as, foregone summers. Contrasted to present.

Synonyms: bygone, bypast, departed, gone.

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Etymology of 'Foregone'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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