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English
Adjective
forein (comparative more forein, superlative most forein)
- Obsolete spelling of foreign
Anagrams
Middle English
Adjective
forein
- Alternative form of foreyn
- 14th c. Chaucer (Translator); Boethius; De Consolatione Philosophiae; Book 3, Metur 9; lines 2419–2421
[N]e / forein causes necesseden þe neuer to compoune werke / of floterynge mater.- No external causes impelled thee to mix with floating matter
Noun
forein
- Alternative form of foreyn
Old French
Adjective
forein m (oblique and nominative feminine singular foreine)
- Alternative form of forain
References
- ^ Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (forein)