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forefighter en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English forfighter, forfyȝtere, equivalent to fore- + fighter.

Meanings

  1. A protector or defender; champion, warrior.
    • In this shared resistance Arminius, the forefighter of Germany's political independence, states Ich habe gesiegt – 'I have prevailed'. 2006, Joseph Theodoor Leerssen, National Thought in Europe: A Cultural History, page 44:

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