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Bygone vs Forepast - What's the difference?

bygone | forepast |

Forepast is a synonym of bygone.



As adjectives the difference between bygone and forepast

is that bygone is having been or happened in the far past while forepast is that has passed; bygone.

As a noun bygone

is a person or occurrence that took place in the past.

bygone

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Having been or happened in the far past.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
    • Near by he could see the thicket of raspberry canes, growing tall and close like a tropical jungle, in whose shadow he had played with the Boy on bygone mornings.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person or occurrence that took place in the past.

    • Related terms

    * let bygones be bygones

    Anagrams

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    forepast

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) That has passed; bygone.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.8:
  • *:Which my liege Lady seeing, thought it best /all forepast displeasures to repeale.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:Of that condition is this other counsell, which Philosophie giveth, onely to keepe forepast .
  • *c.1605 , (William Shakespeare), All's Well That Ends Well , First Folio 1623:
  • *:Take him away, / My fore-past proofes, how ere the matter fall / Shall taze my feares of little vanitie, / Hauing vainly fear'd too little.

    • Synonyms

    * (that has passed) bygone, foregone