Meanings
- uncountableA stating in advance
In the next sentence we have an acknowledged parenthesis, a forestating of a logical objection or question: 'There was a succession of days, at all events, when contact with him—and in its immediate effect, as if it could produce no other— […]
2013, Roger Gard, Henry James1 more example
When the forecasts or indications thus published are examined in reference to accuracy of preannouueement of the state of the weather only (not the forestating, as is the custom, the changes of the barometer, thermometer, and average wind-direction to happen), the average percentage of accuracy is found to be 90.7 per cent, verified.
1878, Annual Report of the Secretary of War - Volume 1
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of forestate
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