"forehear" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From fore- + hear.",
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          "ref": "1837 January 2, “The Pleasures of Winter”, in The Spirit and Manners of the Age, volume 3",
          "text": "[…] mingled into one beautiful and continuous peal of that earthly harmony which Heaven has given us as a forehearing of those sublimer harmonies that, in its everlasting bowers, take the imprisoned soul, \"and lap it in elysium.\"",
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          "ref": "1905, Margaret Westrup, “Billy's Long Day”, in The Idler, volume 26, page 604",
          "text": "In that flash of time as his fingers had touched the handle of the table-spoon, he had foreseen John's wild rush to the doors, he had foreheard John's agitated cry of \"Thieves! Police! Burglars!\"",
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        {
          "ref": "2014, Joseph McElroy, Ancient History: A Paraphrase",
          "text": "Holiday labor at the island today: being his guest is a hazardous responsibility: I foresee a swell and forelean to a spumy pitch and forehear the scuff of a badly perched sack of cement as it slips into the racing bay, and my New York imagination […]",
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        "To hear beforehand."
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To hear beforehand."
      ],
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  "etymology_text": "From fore- + hear.",
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          "ref": "1837 January 2, “The Pleasures of Winter”, in The Spirit and Manners of the Age, volume 3",
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          "text": "Holiday labor at the island today: being his guest is a hazardous responsibility: I foresee a swell and forelean to a spumy pitch and forehear the scuff of a badly perched sack of cement as it slips into the racing bay, and my New York imagination […]",
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