Foreready vs Foreread - What's the difference?
foreready | foreread |
(lb) To make ready ahead of time; prepare in advance.
*1995 , Percy Grainger's Gift to the Land of His Birth:
*2010 , H. N. Turteltaub, Justinian :
To signify beforehand; predict.
*1904 , Vassar College, The Vassar miscellany: Volume 34 :
*1907 , Harper's magazine: Volume 114:
To read beforehand or ahead of time.
*1989 , Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Despair: a novel :
(lb) To perceive, interpret or figure out in advance.
*1922 , James Branch Cabell, Gallantry :
In transitive terms the difference between foreready and foreread
is that foreready is to make ready ahead of time; prepare in advance while foreread is to perceive, interpret or figure out in advance.As a noun foreread is
a foreword; preface.foreready
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Verb
- If l am a lifemaster l have the same "right" to a museum as these other men & have a full right to foreready for it while l am alive.
- Plainly, he had forereadied them. I thought more of him for that, not less, having had many hours of my life wasted by lackwits unprepared for the audiences they had gained with me.
foreread
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* (l)Verb
- She feels that she could "foreread the future and its mystery" if she could divine the meaning of the "burdened sea."
- 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.
- 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.
- He foreread like a placard Jeanne d'Etoiles' magnificent scheme: it would convulse all Europe.