forelife

plural forelives · alternative fore-life

1. A former or previous life

   It would be possible in this way to append an entire forelife to ones memory or more than one forelife.

   2000, R. Michael Perry, Forever for All

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   [...] Murasaki, who stood before me and with an expression of perfect joy said to me, 'Buddha and Heaven have taken pity on me; for the life on earth, life in Senland is vouchsafed me, a home in Horai is accorded me; in the forelife of the Princess, in the forelife of my lord, Yamabito, was the bond created that presaged their eternal wedlock, when they shall shake them [...]

   1965, Masamochi Ishikawa, The magical carpenter of Japan

   "But previous to this, my motive existed somewhere in that nebulous fore-life where both men and books have their impalpable beginning; for even you cannot have forgotten that when a certain passionately enterprising young editor asked you for a novel to be printed in his journal, you so far imagined me as to say that I would be about a girl.

   2015, William Dean Howells, William Dean Howells - Premium Collection

2. rareEarly or primitive life; protozoa

   Because all they hoped to create was the lowest kind of life; in their own words, the protozoon, or forelife; whereas Babbage created the highest kind of life; as it should seem, the afterlife, [...]

   1910, Allen Upward, The New Word