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Foretake vs Fortake - What's the difference?

foretake | fortake |

In transitive terms the difference between foretake and fortake

is that foretake is to take or choose before another (option); prefer while fortake is to take away; remove; deprive.

foretake

English

Verb

  • To take, receive, or adopt beforehand; assume.
  • *1855 , John Claudius Pitrat, Paul and Julia :
  • You shall bring and lay in our hands tne product of your activity: we will divide it into two parts — the one shall be ours; it shall be sacred; you shall call it tithe; we will foretake it [...]
  • *2006 , Robert L. Sanders, An Appeal to Reveal Poetic Ideal :
  • Enraptures a man to foretake his pleasure, And capture a woman to partake her treasure.
  • *2010 , Raymond A. Francis, True Experiences: The Sins That Brought Me to My Knees :
  • Upon entering, she showed me to the bedroom. I got undressed and laid on the bed, thinking of the course of action I had to foretake as I lay there.
  • To take or choose before another (option); prefer.
  • *2011 , Jacqueline Prost, Journey Through Experiences :
  • To be healthy and acknowledged I strive to be my very best / I am grateful and thankful For the blessings I do have / I foretake to dream the biggest dream yet [...]

    fortake

    English

    Verb

  • To take away; remove; deprive.
  • *1861 , Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Spoon and sparrow :
  • Be ye not willing to hoard to you gold hoards on earth, where rust and moth fortake it, and where thieves delve it and forsteal, [...]
  • *1866 , Couldrette, Walter William Skeat, The romans of Partenay, or of Lusignen :
  • With thys fair lady ther fortake ueryly, [...]
  • *1898 , Stopford Augustus Brooke, English literature: from the beginning to the Norman conquest :
  • In a slaughter wide they fell, woeful days of Bale came on; Famine-death fortook fortitude from men!
  • To mistake; make a mistake.
  • To aim or deal a blow at; hit.