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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
forefend .
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Examples
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The idea was clever and spirited, and had a very fair chance of success; but the land below the sea forefended it.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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It was that humanity had entered on a dark region in time: a region whose terrors had not been forefended; to be entered perforce by a humanity, or section of humanity, that had no Center of Light established in its midst.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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Dermal pain is not the worst thing in the world, and by a judicious knowledge of how it feels at both ends of the rod, by flogging and being flogged, far deeper pains may be forefended.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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That could not be forefended by hard work; there was nothing for it but to take up a right attitude, and to confront and meet it with dignity.
The Bride of the Nile — Volume 03 Georg Ebers 1867
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That could not be forefended by hard work; there was nothing for it but to take up a right attitude, and to confront and meet it with dignity.
The Bride of the Nile — Volume 03 Georg Ebers 1867
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That could not be forefended by hard work; there was nothing for it but to take up a right attitude, and to confront and meet it with dignity.
The Bride of the Nile — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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That could not be forefended by hard work; there was nothing for it but to take up a right attitude, and to confront and meet it with dignity.
The Bride of the Nile — Volume 03 Georg Ebers 1867
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That could not be forefended by hard work; there was nothing for it but to take up a right attitude, and to confront and meet it with dignity.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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The idea was clever and spirited, and had a very fair chance of success; but the land below the sea forefended it.
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Moreover, O our lord, the youth hath no default at all and the offence is from us, for that he forbade and forefended us and wrote up in many a place the warning words, Whoso speaketh of what concerneth him not, shall hear what pleaseth him not.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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