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forefeel

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Fromfore- +‎feel.

forefeel (third-person singular simple presentforefeels,present participleforefeeling,simple past and past participleforefelt)

(transitive) Tofeel orperceive beforehand or in advance; to have apresentiment of.
- 1603,Michel de Montaigne, chapter 28, inJohn Florio, transl.,The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes forEdward Blount […],→OCLC:
  Such a studie was yongCatoes, infore-feeling his approaching end, who lighting uponPlatoes discourse of the soules immortality.
- 1924,Herman Melville, chapter 6, inBilly Budd‎^[1], London: Constable & Co.:
  […] as touching most fundamental topics, there had got to be established in him some positive convictions, which heforefelt would abide in him essentially unmodified so long as his intelligent part remained unimpaired.

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