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  • verb Present participle of forearm.

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  • No matter how carefully conformed to the law of God and the precepts of the Church one's life may have been, no Christian will want to enter eternity without some immediate forearming against the terrors of that last passage.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • He had a presentiment that in this way God was forearming him for some extraordinary trial; and the loss of his wife seemed to him most likely to be that trial.

    The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss Prentiss, George L 1882

  • This, after all, is a woman who dislocated her shoulder three years ago while forearming a raccoon off her deck to protect her Labrador retriever.

    NYT > Home Page By JERÉ LONGMAN 2011

  • Oh and apparently the refs don't mind Justin McCareins forearming Jacques Reeves before hs snags a deep bomb inside the

    MVN 2008

  • (thereby forearming our enemies) but still deny the American people critical information about how the CIA program improved national intelligence and served to thwart terrorist operations.

    Hyscience 2009

  • a presentiment that in this way God was forearming him for some extraordinary trial; and the loss of his wife seemed to him most likely to be that trial.

    The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss George L. Prentiss 1859

  • He mentioned this to his cousin, but O’Hara, with a light-hearted reference to forewarning and forearming, refused to take the matter seriously.

    The Dancing Druids Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1948

  • He mentioned this to his cousin, but O’Hara, with a light-hearted reference to forewarning and forearming, refused to take the matter seriously.

    The Dancing Druids Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1948

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