forevouch
English
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[edit]Verb
[edit]forevouch (third-person singular simple present forevouches, present participle forevouching, simple past and past participle forevouched)
- To avow or affirm in advance.
- 1850, “Easter Even: Desultory Musings”, in Evergreen, volume 7, page 103:
- And His own psalm in Hades had been forevouched for centuries, predicting His release from the grave and the intermediate world, and his reentrance into life, and assuming "the path of (unending) life."
- 1851, Henry Ustick Onderdonk, Sermons and Episcopal Charges - Volume 1, page 333:
- Our Saviour hath forevouched that the wicked shall "go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal."
- 1856, The Watch Tower; Or, Observations on the Prophetic Phases of The Day, page 11:
- Is it not a startling fact, that in the midst of the Babel confusion which prevails, one conviction presses upon every mind, that we are in a period of solemn grandeur, forevouching the speedy approach of some universal, unprecedented change?
- 1987, The Sikh Review - Volume 35, page 36:
- […] was forevouched to be killer of his maternal uncle Rai Dayach in the likeness of Lord Krishna to be the ender of King Kanas.