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foredraw en · VERB

Etymology

From fore- + draw.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To draw beforehand or in advance; draw forward.
   • [...] him who, single-handed, Had wrested from the tyrants 'gainst him banded Populous Naples and broad Sicily, And given them to triumphant Italy: Cavour, Mazzini, who so well In his large soul foredrew the nation's span, [...] 1882, George Henry Calvert, Life, Death: And Other Poems - Page 21:
   • Already in his notes on Parmenides, he writes with apparent approval: "Not-being is here seen as want of oneness, all that is unforedrawn, waste space which offers either nothing to the eye to foredraw or many things foredrawing away from one another." 2011, Dennis Sobolev, The Split World of Gerard Manley Hopkins:
   • Our Lord foredrew the character of those who would reject his gospel on so groundless and awful a plea, when he descrihed the unprofitahle servant, … 1841, The Primitive Church Magazine - Page 223
   • Olney argues that the self so constituted in metaphor is "a coherent and integral self, potential at first and destined, though no one can foredraw the exact shape of destiny, to be realized through many experiences until it shall become this one, and no other, self." 2006, Stephen Gill, Stephen Charles Gill, William Wordsworth's The Prelude:

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