"forelast" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Dutch voorlaatst",
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  "etymology_text": "From fore- + last. In some instances of more recent use, perhaps also a calque of German vorletzte or Dutch voorlaatst.",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1633, Charles Butler, The English Grammar, Oxford, page 57, spelling modernized:",
          "text": "Certain disyllables, being both Nouns and Verbs, are distinguished by the Accent: the Verb having it in the last, and the Noun in the fore-last[…]",
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        {
          "ref": "1909, Oscar Sonneck, compiler, Report on the \"Star-Spangled Banner\", \"Hail Columbia\", \"America\", \"Yankee Doodle\", Washington: Government Printing Office, page 73:",
          "text": "The only difference between the 12 song books selected, which is at all worth mentioning, is that Aiken, Gantvoort, Jepson, Ripley, Zeiner have in the forelast bar—[sheet music] whereas[…]",
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        {
          "ref": "2012 [1973], J.M.R. Detry, Exercise Testing and Training in Coronary Heart Disease, Springer Netherlands, →ISBN, page 44:",
          "text": "[T]he #92;dot#123;V#125;#95;#123;O#95;2#125; increased continuously until the end of the exercise test and the values collected during the forelast minute are 95% of the maximal values during the last minute of the text.",
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          "ref": "2012 [1992], Konrad Jacobs, Discrete Stochastics, Springer Basel AG, →ISBN, page 36:",
          "text": "The second statement is a special case of the forelast, and the forelast one follows from the last, whose proof is obvious[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003 [2002], Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Orlando: Harcourt, →ISBN, page 270:",
          "text": "when the blight came on the crop the summer forelast he would not help us.",
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        }
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        "Next to last, second to last."
      ],
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          "Next to last",
          "next to last"
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          "second to last",
          "second to last"
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        "(rare, now possibly nonstandard) Next to last, second to last."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "penultimate"
        },
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          "word": "fore-last"
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        "nonstandard",
        "not-comparable",
        "possibly",
        "rare"
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  "word": "forelast"
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  "etymology_text": "From fore- + last. In some instances of more recent use, perhaps also a calque of German vorletzte or Dutch voorlaatst.",
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        },
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 [1973], J.M.R. Detry, Exercise Testing and Training in Coronary Heart Disease, Springer Netherlands, →ISBN, page 44:",
          "text": "[T]he #92;dot#123;V#125;#95;#123;O#95;2#125; increased continuously until the end of the exercise test and the values collected during the forelast minute are 95% of the maximal values during the last minute of the text.",
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          "type": "quote"
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          "text": "when the blight came on the crop the summer forelast he would not help us.",
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        "Next to last, second to last."
      ],
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        "(rare, now possibly nonstandard) Next to last, second to last."
      ],
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    {
      "word": "fore-last"
    }
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  "word": "forelast"
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