"forepast" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From fore- + past.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Which my liege Lady seeing, thought it best\n[…]all forepast displeasures to repeale.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Of that condition is this other counsell, which Philosophie giveth, onely to keepe forepast [translating passé] felicities in memorie, and thence blot out such griefes as we have felt[…].",
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          "ref": "c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):",
          "text": "Take him away,\n My fore-past proofes, how ere the matter fall\n Shall taze my feares of little vanitie,\n Hauing vainly fear'd too little.",
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        "That has passed; bygone."
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          "bygone"
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        "(obsolete) That has passed; bygone."
      ],
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        {
          "sense": "that has passed",
          "word": "bygone"
        },
        {
          "word": "foregone"
        },
        {
          "word": "past"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "forepast"
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  "etymology_text": "From fore- + past.",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Which my liege Lady seeing, thought it best\n[…]all forepast displeasures to repeale.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Of that condition is this other counsell, which Philosophie giveth, onely to keepe forepast [translating passé] felicities in memorie, and thence blot out such griefes as we have felt[…].",
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          "ref": "c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):",
          "text": "Take him away,\n My fore-past proofes, how ere the matter fall\n Shall taze my feares of little vanitie,\n Hauing vainly fear'd too little.",
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        "That has passed; bygone."
      ],
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          "bygone"
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        "(obsolete) That has passed; bygone."
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    {
      "sense": "that has passed",
      "word": "bygone"
    },
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      "word": "foregone"
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