See forerule in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1883, George Henry Calvert, Brangonar: A Tragedy, page 63:",
"text": "Prevision is of man's prerogatives\nThat one whereby, with likeliest warranty,\nHe claims companionship with Godhead's self,\nWith what creates and forerules wheeling worlds.",
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"ref": "1889, Michael Doyle, Cause, page 11:",
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"ref": "1892, George Ferguson, Our Earth - Night to Twilight, volume 1, page 8:",
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"ref": "1897, Francis Burdett Thomas Coutts-Nevill Baron Latymer, King Arthur:",
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"text": "Alas, without Death and the Fates that forerule him I reckoned, […]",
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