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- adverb obsolete To a great
extent ;far .
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Examples
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And it is very like that he sayd not such words, nor spake so farforth in the matter, without commission from some of the chiefe of the campe, or of the great Turke himselfe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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So farforth that the English men were sent for to be the guarders of the persons of the Emperours of Constantinople.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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AS FOR their cities, he that knoweth one of them, knoweth them all: they be all so like one to another, as farforth as the nature of the place permitteth.
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He was farforth holy, that is to say firm or clean or dyed of blood, or deputed to holy usage, like as vessels of the temple be said holy for they be ordained to holy usage.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
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And it is very like that he sayd not such words, nor spake so farforth in the matter, without commission from some of the chiefe of the campe, or of the great Turke himselfe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe Richard Hakluyt 1584
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So farforth that the English men were sent for to be the guarders of the persons of the Emperours of Constantinople.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe Richard Hakluyt 1584
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For this causeth men (as though nations which be separate asunder, by the space of a little hill or a river, were coupled together by no society or bond of nature) to think themselves born adversaries and enemies one to another, and that it is lawful for the one to seek the death and destruction of the other, if leagues were not: yea, and that after the leagues be accorded, friendship doth not grow and increase; but the licence of robbing and stealing doth still remain, as farforth as for lack of foresight and advisement in writing the words of the league, any sentence or clause to the contrary is not therein sufficiently comprehended.
The Second Book. Of Bondmen, Sick Persons, Wedlock, and divers other matters 1909
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