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English
Etymology
From fore- + past.
Adjective
forepast (not comparable)
- (obsolete) That has passed; bygone.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:Of that condition is this other counsell, which Philosophie giveth, onely to keepe forepast [translating passé] felicities in memorie, and thence blot out such griefes as we have felt […].
c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):Take him away,
My fore-past proofes, how ere the matter fall
Shall taze my feares of little vanitie,
Hauing vainly fear'd too little.
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