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verbforelend (third-person singular simple present forelends, present participle forelending, simple past and past participle forelent)
present singular third person forelends · participle present forelending · participle past forelent · past forelent
- archaictransitiveto lend in advance
As if that life to losse they had forelent
1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC1 more example
Foretelling: Spirits mine, swift death shall end ye, Cruel! if seeing me no tears forelend ye, Sith but the being in thought sets wide mine eyes For sobbing out my heart’s full memories.
1912, Ezra Pound, “Ballate”, in Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti
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