aforehand

American  

[uh-fawr-hand, uh-fohr-] / əˈfɔrˌhænd, əˈfoʊr- /

adverb

Older Use.

1. beforehand.

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Etymology

Origin of aforehand

1400–50; late Middle English. See afore, hand

Example Sentences

Mrs. Holton said, “They didn’t say nothing aforehand ’cause they was afeared your ma woulda run with you.”

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

If I’d-a thought ’bout it aforehand, I’d-a probably figgered all of that moving going on outside would keep me wide awake, but it was jus’ the opposite.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis

I came to tell you of it; but I considered it my religious duty to inwestigate your paternal feelings concerning me aforehand.

From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 by Various

She hath done what she could: she hath anointed My body aforehand for the burying.

From The Gospel According to St. Mark by Chadwick, G. A.

But I'm a little aforehand with the old gentleman.

From The Inconstant by Farquhar, George