foretime

[ fawr-tahym, fohr- ]

noun

1. former or past time; times; the past.

foretime

/ ˈfɔːˌtaɪm /

noun

1. time already gone; the past

Word History and Origins

Origin of foretime¹

First recorded in 1530–40; fore- + time

Example Sentences

I am a student and professor of a strange and mighty magic, for I possess the marvellous Mirror, and the still more wondrous Crystal Globe—both of which are heirlooms of the early foretime, handed down the ages to me, as I in turn shall bequeath them to the ages yet to be.

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With the speed of Light his mental vision flashed back along and over the valley of the dead years, and saw arrayed before it all the strange phasmaramas of the foretime.

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Vast was the buried and antique lore that was his, for the foretime Made him master of earlier customs as well as of newer.

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Two great anatomists built up the structure of scientific human anatomy on the rather good foundation that had been laid on animal anatomy in the foretime.

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In thin white silk, with head-dress madder-dyed, Is she, my sole delight, 'foretime my bride.

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