"forehandedness" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2014, Harold J. Laski, A Grammar of Politics, →ISBN:",
          "text": "We can, if we choose to utilise our experience, be forehanded about these matters. But we shall only be forehanded by creating institutions to compel forehandedness.",
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          "ref": "1971, Rudyard Kipling, Andrew Rutherford, Short Stories: A Sahibs' war and other stories, →ISBN, page 39:",
          "text": "Any God's quantity of fuss and flubdub to bury a man, and not an ounce of forehandedness in the whole outfit to find out whether he was rightly dead.",
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          "text": "In the opinion of the community at large Stephen's forehandedness in the matter of preparations for his marriage was imprudence, and his desire for neatness and beauty flagrant extravagance.",
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