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Passed vs Forepast - What's the difference?

passed | forepast |

As adjectives the difference between passed and forepast

is that passed is that has passed beyond a certain point (chiefly in set collocations) while forepast is (obsolete) that has passed; bygone.

As a verb passed

is (pass).

passed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (pass)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • That has passed beyond a certain point (chiefly in set collocations).
  • That has passed a given qualification or examination; qualified.

    • Derived terms

    * passed pawn

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    forepast

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) That has passed; bygone.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.8:
  • *:Which my liege Lady seeing, thought it best /all forepast displeasures to repeale.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:Of that condition is this other counsell, which Philosophie giveth, onely to keepe forepast .
  • *c.1605 , (William Shakespeare), All's Well That Ends Well , First Folio 1623:
  • *:Take him away, / My fore-past proofes, how ere the matter fall / Shall taze my feares of little vanitie, / Hauing vainly fear'd too little.

    • Synonyms

    * (that has passed) bygone, foregone