"forne" meaning in English

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        "5": "next, of, out, through"
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English, variation of Middle English ferne (“old, long ago, distant, past”), from Old English fyrn (“former, ancient”), from Proto-Germanic *furnaz, *fernaz, *firnijaz (“old, former”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“next, of, out, through”). More at fern.",
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      "form": "more forne",
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      "form": "most forne",
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          "ref": "1564, Nicholas Udall, Apophthegmatum opus (originally by Erasmus)",
          "text": "The Camel's hous; whiche it is saied that a certain king / In forne yeares, when he had on a Dromedarie Camele escaped the handes of his enemies, builded there."
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        "(obsolete) Former."
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  "word": "forne"
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English, variation of Middle English ferne (“old, long ago, distant, past”), from Old English fyrn (“former, ancient”), from Proto-Germanic *furnaz, *fernaz, *firnijaz (“old, former”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“next, of, out, through”). More at fern.",
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