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Webster 1913 Edition


Forelook

Fore-look′

,
Verb.
I.
To look beforehand or forward.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Forelook

FORELOOK'

,
Verb.
T.
To look beforehand or forward.

Definition 2024


forelook

forelook

English

Verb

forelook (third-person singular simple present forelooks, present participle forelooking, simple past and past participle forelooked)

  1. To look beforehand, to preview.
  2. To look forward.

Noun

forelook (plural forelooks)

  1. A preview.
    • 1859 September, Edward Everett Hale, "My Double; and How He Undid Me," Atlantic Monthly:
      [T]o do one's best on Sunday to interweave that thought with the active life of an active town, and to inspirit both and make both infinite by glimpses of the Eternal Glory, seemed such an exquisite forelook into one's life! . . . If this vision could only have lasted.
  2. Someone or something previewed.

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