† forthforen.
Obsolete.
A going forth:
a. Old English only: Decease, death; = forthfare n. 1.
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c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1891) iii. xix. 210 Forðon him cuð fordfor toweard wære & ungewiis seo tid þære ilcan forðfore.
b. Used as rendering of Latin transitus, given by Jerome as the literal meaning of pascha (passover).
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a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3158 Ðat nigt sal ben fest pasche; ‘Forð-for’ on engle tunge it be.
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