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foregrasp en · NOUN

Etymology

From fore- + grasp.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) A prior cognizance or understanding; an awareness or comprehension beforehand.
   • Each of these terms is the product of the irony which comes from having obtained a foregrasp of mundaneity while attempting to articulate mundaneity within the idiom which mundaneity supports. 2010, Melvin Pollner, Mundane Reason: Reality in Everyday and Sociological Discourse:

foregrasp en · VERB

Etymology

From fore- + grasp.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To grasp beforehand.
   • Thy great deliverance is a greater thing Than purest imagination can foregrasp; A thing beyond all conscious hungering, Beyond all hope that makes the poet sing. 2007, George MacDonald, Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul:

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