foregranted

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adjective

Granted in advance.

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Meanings

adjectiveforegranted (comparative more foregranted, superlative most foregranted)

comparative more foregranted · superlative most foregranted

  1. Granted in advance.

    […] together with all interest in all debts and choses in action of every description whatsoever: To have and to hold the above and foregranted portion, interest or share in the said estate to the said John B. Latham, his heirs and assigns forever, […]

    1882, Arkansas. Supreme Court, George W Williams, Arkansas Reports
  2. Presumed.

    There always seems to me to be something concealed, a foregranted assumption, in the ecclesiastical mind, over which one stumbles.”

    1916, The North American Review

Origin

From fore- + granted.

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APA

foregranted. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foregranted

MLA

“foregranted.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foregranted. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “foregranted,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foregranted.

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