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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

forevouch en · VERB

Etymology

From fore- + vouch.

Meanings

  1. To avow or affirm in advance.
    • Is it not a startling fact, that in the midst of the Babel confusion which prevails, one conviction presses upon every mind, that we are in a period of solemn grandeur, forevouching the speedy approach of some universal, unprecedented change? 1856, The Watch Tower; Or, Observations on the Prophetic Phases of The Day, page 11:
    • Our Saviour hath forevouched that the wicked shall "go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal." 1851, Henry Ustick Onderdonk, Sermons and Episcopal Charges - Volume 1, page 333:
    • […] was forevouched to be killer of his maternal uncle Rai Dayach in the likeness of Lord Krishna to be the ender of King Kanas. 1987, The Sikh Review - Volume 35, page 36:
    • And His own psalm in Hades had been forevouched for centuries, predicting His release from the grave and the intermediate world, and his reentrance into life, and assuming "the path of (unending) life." 1850, “Easter Even: Desultory Musings”, in Evergreen, volume 7, page 103:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
forevouching Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
forevouches Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
forevouched Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
forevouched Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

forevouched