"forraign" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more forraign [comparative], most forraign [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} forraign (comparative more forraign, superlative most forraign)
  1. Obsolete spelling of foreign Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: foreign
    Sense id: en-forraign-en-adj-RSJnQupG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1651, Thomas Hobbes, chapter 44, in Leviathan, London: Andrew Crooke, page 334",
          "text": "Whence comes it, that in Christendome there has been, almost from the time of the Apostles, such justling of one another out of their places, both by forraign, and Civill war? such stumbling at every little asperity of their own fortune, and every little eminence of that of other men?",
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