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foretime, n. and adv.|ˈfɔətaɪm|
[f. fore- prefix + time n.]
Former time; a former time. †a. In advb. phrase, in foretime(s = aforetimes.
c1540tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden) I. 98 If there were in foretimes enie hatred on their partes towards the Romaines. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 507 It was called in foretime Norton Dany.
b. The time gone by, the past; also, the early days (of a city or state).
1853Grote Greece ii. lxxxvii. XI. 380 That conception of Athens in her foretime which he [Thucydides] is perpetually impressing on his countrymen. 1868Gladstone Juv. Mundi v. (1869) 124 The single great Achaian voyage of the traditionary fore-time, that of the ship Argo to the Euxine.
c. attrib. (quasi-adj.)
1894F. S. Ellis Reynard 116 He who thought the world to win, His foretime poverty was in. 1896C. Harrison in Daily News 8 Jan. 6/3 For though You now have passed away from us The foretime Dedication still holds good.
†B. adv. = aforetime. Obs.—1
c1590Greene Fr. Bacon ix. 128 Lest thou dost lose what foretime thou didst gain. |