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Foreread vs Forelead - What's the difference?

foreread | forelead |

In transitive terms the difference between foreread and forelead

is that foreread is to perceive, interpret or figure out in advance while forelead is to lead forth; lead forward; lead before.

As a noun foreread

is a foreword; preface.

foreread

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

  • To signify beforehand; predict.
  • *1904 , Vassar College, The Vassar miscellany: Volume 34 :
    • She feels that she could "foreread the future and its mystery" if she could divine the meaning of the "burdened sea."
  • *1907 , Harper's magazine: Volume 114:
    • He foreread like a placard Jeanne d'Etoiles' magnificent scheme: it would convulse all Europe, while England would remain supine, simply because Neweastle was a fool and Ormskirk would be dead.
  • To read beforehand or ahead of time.
  • *1989 , Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Despair: a novel :
    • I can readily imagine what Pushkin might have said to his trembling paraphrasts; but I also know how pleased and excited I would have been in 1935 had I been able to foreread this 1965 version.
  • (lb) To perceive, interpret or figure out in advance.
  • *1922 , James Branch Cabell, Gallantry :
    • He foreread like a placard Jeanne d'Etoiles' magnificent scheme: it would convulse all Europe.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A foreword; preface.

    • forelead

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

  • To lead forth; lead forward; lead before.
  • *1902 , Thomas Edgar Pemberton, Ellen Terry and her sisters :
    • " [...] But you twin sister of the morning sun, Forelead the Sun!"
  • *2003 , Gary B. Nash, The American people: creating a nation and a society :
    • This interactive and informative site follows Spanish exploration by way of a map showing the trails (now highways) where the conquistadores foreled .