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FOREGOING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foregoing mean? 

FOREGOING (adjective)
  The adjective FOREGOING has 1 sense:

1. especially of writing or speech; going beforeplay

  Familiarity information: FOREGOING used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FOREGOING (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Especially of writing or speech; going before

Similar:

preceding (existing or coming before)


 Context examples 


So far I have written each of the foregoing events as it occurred.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Spiker, after the receipt of such a confidence, naturally desired to favour his friend with a confidence of his own; therefore the foregoing dialogue was succeeded by another, in which it was Mr. Gulpidge's turn to be surprised, and that by another in which the surprise came round to Mr. Spiker's turn again, and so on, turn and turn about.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If the man who holds it is so, it is by the neglect of his duty, by foregoing its just importance, and stepping out of his place to appear what he ought not to appear.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

About noon, however, she began—but with a caution—a dread of disappointment which for some time kept her silent, even to her friend—to fancy, to hope she could perceive a slight amendment in her sister's pulse;—she waited, watched, and examined it again and again;—and at last, with an agitation more difficult to bury under exterior calmness, than all her foregoing distress, ventured to communicate her hopes.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)



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