Foreken vs Forken - What's the difference?

foreken | forken |

As a verb foreken

is to perceive, ken, or realise ahead of time; foreknow; preconceive.

As a noun foreken

is readiness for or anticipation of a perception; foreknowledge; preconception.

As an adjective forken is

forked.

foreken

English

Verb

To perceive, ken, or realise ahead of time; foreknow; preconceive.

*2003 , Steven Pressfield, Last of the Amazons :

This before all elevates humankind above the beasts: we alone foreken our mortality. We alone know we must die.

Noun

(en noun)

Readiness for or anticipation of a perception; foreknowledge; preconception.

*1892 , Edward Elbridge Salisbury, Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury, Family histories and genealogies :

But Mr. Marcy, with that foreken which distinguishes statesmen from politicians, saw the coming time when the Pacific Coast population would emerge out of its transient humors, when it would feel the settled purposes of permanent [...]

forken

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Forked.

*1868 , Samuel Cuthbert Rogers, Vesper songs :

For ah! whatever evils lodge with youth, Like caterpillars on the leaves of spring, It of its essence counts the lip of truth, The honest tongue that wears no forken sting, The heart untouched by Care's prevailing [...]

*1977 , American Guild of Organists, Royal Canadian College of Organists, Associated Pipe Organ Builders of America, The American organist :

While an organ with a "forken tongue" may sound loud enough in the church, there is a real loss of clarity.

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