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foresave en · VERB

Etymology

From fore- + save.

Meanings

1. (rare, transitive) To save (money or a person) beforehand or in advance.
   • The mendicant exhibited no gesture of impatience or surprise; he had grown accustomed to such repulses, and he rapidly made the sign of the Cross in the air as the clergyman proceeded on his way, saying so audibly that Ximene at her window heard his words, "God help us all, and may the Holy Cross foresave ye from the need of charity in the day of judgment!" 1848, Furlong Elizabeth S. Harris, Rest in the Church, by the author of ‘From Oxford to Rome’, page 260:
   • The fact that the accommodation is becoming "totally inadequate" is a common complaint from the committees of all medical charities, and does not so much indicate the piteous and pressing need of the poor as the increasing sense of pauperisation and want of moral backbone in the people who are being taught to foresave little for this kind of attention. 1907, British Journal of Dental Science, volume 50, page 405:

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