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Foredoor vs Foredoom - What's the difference?

foredoor | foredoom |

As nouns the difference between foredoor and foredoom

is that foredoor is a door located at the fore part of a house or dwelling; front door while foredoom is a doom that is predicted; destiny.

As a verb foredoom is

to predestine to a doom.

foredoor

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A door located at the fore part of a house or dwelling; front door.
  • *1768 , Jonathan Swift, The Works of J. Swift :
    • This morning the great foredoor quite open, dancing backwards and forwards with all its weight upon the lower hinge, which must have been broken if the dean had not accidentally come and relieved it.
  • *1825 , Horace WELBY (pseud. [i.e. John Timbs.]), Signs before Death :
    • All the pewter is thrown about the kitchen.” But when they looked, all the pewter stood in its place. There then was a loud knocking at the back-door. My father opened it, but saw nothing. It was then at the foredoor . He opened that : but it was still lost labour.
  • *2014 , Samuel Richardson, Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Richardson (Illustrated) :
    • I begged, prayed, would have kneeled to him: But all was in vain: The tyger-hearted man, as Mr. Greville had truly called him, muffled me up in it, and by force carried me thro' a long entry to the foredoor .

    foredoom

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A doom that is predicted; destiny.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To predestine to a doom.
  • * Dryden
    • Thou art foredoomed to view the Stygian state.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1922 , year_published=2010 , edition=HTML , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=The Chessmen of Mars citation , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , passage=To search for Tara of Helium in the vast, dim labyrinth of the pits of O-Tar seemed to the Gatholian a hopeless quest, foredoomed to failure. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1932 , year_published=2010 , author=(Duff Cooper) , title=Talleyrand , publisher=The Folio Society , page=35 , passage=They appeared, upon the surface, to possess all the qualities which were likely to recommend them to the fashionable society of the day; but their mission was foredoomed to failure.}}

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