"forelife" meaning in English

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"previous life\"",
      "word": "afterlife"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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        "3": "forelyf"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English forelyf",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "foorlyf"
      },
      "expansion": "foorlyf",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fore-",
        "3": "life"
      },
      "expansion": "fore- + life",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English forelyf, foorlyf, equivalent to fore- + life.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "forelives",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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      "expansion": "forelife (plural forelives)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "beforelife"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "77 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with fore-",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1965, Masamochi Ishikawa, The magical carpenter of Japan",
          "text": "[...] Murasaki, who stood before me and with an expression of perfect joy said to me, 'Buddha and Heaven have taken pity on me; for the life on earth, life in Senland is vouchsafed me, a home in Horai is accorded me; in the forelife of the Princess, in the forelife of my lord, Yamabito, was the bond created that presaged their eternal wedlock, when they shall shake them [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, R. Michael Perry, Forever for All",
          "text": "It would be possible in this way to append an entire forelife to ones memory or more than one forelife.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, William Dean Howells, William Dean Howells - Premium Collection",
          "text": "\"But previous to this, my motive existed somewhere in that nebulous fore-life where both men and books have their impalpable beginning; for even you cannot have forgotten that when a certain passionately enterprising young editor asked you for a novel to be printed in his journal, you so far imagined me as to say that I would be about a girl.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A former or previous life"
      ],
      "id": "en-forelife-en-noun-97YbcZKD",
      "links": [
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
          "_dis": "10 90",
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            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1910, Allen Upward, The New Word",
          "text": "Because all they hoped to create was the lowest kind of life; in their own words, the protozoon, or forelife; whereas Babbage created the highest kind of life; as it should seem, the afterlife, [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Early or primitive life; protozoa"
      ],
      "id": "en-forelife-en-noun-TXGNDB13",
      "links": [
        [
          "primitive",
          "primitive"
        ],
        [
          "protozoa",
          "protozoa"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) Early or primitive life; protozoa"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "fore-life"
    }
  ],
  "word": "forelife"
}

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"previous life\"",
      "word": "afterlife"
    }
  ],
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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms prefixed with fore-"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "enm",
        "3": "forelyf"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English forelyf",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "foorlyf"
      },
      "expansion": "foorlyf",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fore-",
        "3": "life"
      },
      "expansion": "fore- + life",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English forelyf, foorlyf, equivalent to fore- + life.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "forelives",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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      "expansion": "forelife (plural forelives)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "beforelife"
    }
  ],
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1965, Masamochi Ishikawa, The magical carpenter of Japan",
          "text": "[...] Murasaki, who stood before me and with an expression of perfect joy said to me, 'Buddha and Heaven have taken pity on me; for the life on earth, life in Senland is vouchsafed me, a home in Horai is accorded me; in the forelife of the Princess, in the forelife of my lord, Yamabito, was the bond created that presaged their eternal wedlock, when they shall shake them [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, R. Michael Perry, Forever for All",
          "text": "It would be possible in this way to append an entire forelife to ones memory or more than one forelife.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, William Dean Howells, William Dean Howells - Premium Collection",
          "text": "\"But previous to this, my motive existed somewhere in that nebulous fore-life where both men and books have their impalpable beginning; for even you cannot have forgotten that when a certain passionately enterprising young editor asked you for a novel to be printed in his journal, you so far imagined me as to say that I would be about a girl.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A former or previous life"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1910, Allen Upward, The New Word",
          "text": "Because all they hoped to create was the lowest kind of life; in their own words, the protozoon, or forelife; whereas Babbage created the highest kind of life; as it should seem, the afterlife, [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Early or primitive life; protozoa"
      ],
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          "primitive",
          "primitive"
        ],
        [
          "protozoa",
          "protozoa"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) Early or primitive life; protozoa"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fore-life"
    }
  ],
  "word": "forelife"
}