Foregoing
['fɔːgəʊɪŋ] or ['fɔrɡoɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forego
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Preceding, previous, antecedent, prior, former.
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Examples
- The conclusion from this is obvious in favour of the foregoing system. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This conceit, however, is no more reasonable than any of the foregoing. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It may be worth while to illustrate some of the foregoing remarks. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It is in the foregoing manner that the remarkable stereoscopic effect of Sir David Brewster's ghost is produced, a representation of which is given in the next page. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- It would afford us the highest gratification to be enabled to record Mr. Pickwick's opinion of the foregoing anecdote. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- This circumstance, like the two foregoing, has an effect upon joy, as well as pride. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The origin of kindness from beauty may be explained from the foregoing reasoning. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The foregoing examples of ice machines give no idea of the great activity in this field of refrigeration in the Nineteenth Century. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The foregoing letter, and the minutes accompanying it, being shown to a friend, I received from him the following: _From Mr. Benjamin Vaughan. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I believe it will not be necessary to employ many words in shewing the weakness of this argument, after what I have said of the foregoing. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It may be worth while to sum up the foregoing remarks on the causes of the imperfection of the geological record under an imaginary illustration. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The foregoing might be considered a short synopsis of the pork-packing industry up to the point which we will call the Modern Era. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This has evidently appeared in some of the foregoing reasonings; and will appear still more evidently, and be more fully explained afterwards. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- To account for this we must have recourse to the foregoing principles. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I will now briefly recapitulate the foregoing cases. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Much more of similar nature to the above could be quoted from other articles published elsewhere, but the foregoing will serve as instances generally representing all. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To remove this difficulty we must have recourse to the foregoing explication of abstract ideas. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Although in the foregoing pages the reader has been made acquainted with the tremendous import of the actualities lying behind those etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Let us endeavour to explain these phaenomena by the foregoing system. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This appears evidently from the foregoing reasoning. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Objections of the same nature as the foregoing have been advanced by many writers. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Such an opinion will not appear strange after the foregoing definitions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The evident justice and utility of the foregoing maxims have recommended them, more or less, to the attention of all nations. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Opinions of other courts, similar in tenor to the foregoing, might be cited, but it would be merely in the nature of reiteration. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Thus one hypothesis of morality is an undeniable proof of the foregoing system, and the other at worst agrees with it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The foregoing conclusion is not founded on any particular degree of vivacity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Now this is the very essence of necessity, according to the foregoing doctrine. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- But here is an argument, which proves at once, that the foregoing proposition is neither intuitively nor demonstrably certain. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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