forefeel

[ verb fawr-feel, fohr-; noun fawr-feel, fohr- ]

verb (used with object)

, fore·felt, fore·feel·ing.

1. to feel or perceive beforehand; have a presentiment of.

noun

1. a feeling beforehand.

Word History and Origins

Origin of forefeel¹

First recorded in 1570–80; fore- + feel

Example Sentences

In cases where our thoughts follow the connexion of events with ease, and in instances where we positively forefeel the course of a phenomenon, it is natural to fancy that the latter is determined by and must conform to our thoughts.

From Project Gutenberg

Many of our most serious mistakes in life arise from our inability to imagine the consequences of our actions and to forefeel how these consequences will affect us.

From Project Gutenberg

Forefeel, fōr-fēl′, v.t. to feel beforehand.—adv.

From Project Gutenberg

He can be pleased with a literary career, which brought him in youth the heady "forefeel of fame" and later allowed him to strut as "a fat, famous writer in his powerful forties."

From Time Magazine Archive

Brute throats that miss the collar, Bowed backs that ask the whip, Stretched hands that lack the dollar, And many a lie-seared lip, Forefeel and foreshow for us signs as funereal As the signs that were regal of yore and imperial; We shall pass as the princes they served, We shall reap what our fathers deserved, And the place that was England’s be taken By one that is worthier than she, And the yoke of her empire be shaken Like spray from the sea.

From Project Gutenberg

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