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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
foregoing
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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discussion
▪ The foregoing discussion suggests that political parties can be regarded in two different ways.
▪ The foregoing discussion of mammalian cooling techniques and their relation to the human species is rather academic.
▪ The foregoing discussion has dealt with proximate causes.
▪ The foregoing discussion leaves one with a number of possibilities.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foregoing

Forego \Fore*go"\, v. t. [imp. Forewent 2; p. p. Foregone (?; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. Foregoing.] [See Forgo.]

  1. To quit; to relinquish; to leave.

    Stay at the third cup, or forego the place.
    --Herbert.

  2. To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach, or anticipated.

    All my patrimony,, If need be, I am ready to forego.
    --Milton.

    Thy lovers must their promised heaven forego.
    --Keble.

    [He] never forewent an opportunity of honest profit.
    --R. L. Stevenson.

    Note: Forgo is the better spelling etymologically, but the word has been confused with Forego, to go before.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
foregoing

mid-15c., "preceding, antecedent, going before in time or place," present participle adjective from forego. As a noun from 1660s.

Wiktionary
foregoing
  1. Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence. v

  2. (present participle of forego English)

WordNet
foregoing

adj. especially of writing or speech; going before [syn: foregoing(a)]

Usage examples of "foregoing".

It is only by virtue of a strict observance of the foregoing rules that a Lanoo can hope to acquire in good time the Siddhis of the Arhats, the growth which makes him become gradually One with the Universal ALL.

In cases in which the tumors have become indurated and very large it is impossible to effect cures by the foregoing or any other medical treatment.

Most of the insects, in all the foregoing cases, were Diptera, but with many minute Hymenoptera, including some ants, a few small Coleoptera, larvae, spiders, and even small moths.

It is the first of these two Epics, the Iliad of Ancient India, which is the subject of tile foregoing pages.

Perhaps the foregoing simple description, written by an Indian in Guarani, and translated by someone who has preserved in Spanish all the curious inversions of the Guarani, presents as good a picture of the daily life of a mission priest in Paraguay as any that has ever been given to the public by writers much more ambitious than myself or Neenguiru.

He arrayed them abreast directly before the gate, the girl between man and woman, holding hands, and foregoing practise, instructed them to step forward upon his command.

CHAPTER XII: GEORGE FAILS TO FIND MY FATHER, WHEREON YRAM CAUTIONS THE PROFESSORS On the morning after the interview with her son described in a foregoing chapter, Yram told her husband what she had gathered from the Professors, and said that she was expecting Higgs every moment, inasmuch as she was confident that George would soon find him.

The foregoing rules and facts, on the other hand, appear to me clearly to indicate that the sterility both of first crosses and of hybrids is simply incidental or dependent on unknown differences, chiefly in the reproductive systems, of the species which are crossed.

We have already seen Partridge could not bear to have his learning attacked, nor could Jones bear some passage or other in the foregoing speech.

From the foregoing cases it is certain that bits of meat and albumen, if at all damp, excite not only the glands to secrete, but the lobes to close.

We learn from the foregoing experiments that the margins of the leaves curl inwards when excited by the mere pressure of objects not yielding any soluble matter, by objects yielding such matter, and by some fluidsnamely an infusion of raw meat and a week solution of carbonate of ammonia.

In the foregoing notices of proceedings in parliament, reference was made to them in connection with the great subjects which agitated the country at large.

In this case the means of comparison lie much more on the surface than in the foregoing, but they have been equally overlooked, because one-sided views have prevailed, and there has been no freedom of judgment.

From the foregoing description, it will be seen that the labyrinth and tympanum are the most essential parts of the organs of hearing.

The fact of tubers being formed by the foregoing three widely distinct plants, makes us believe that their protection from animals at an early age and whilst tender, is one at least of the advantages gained by the remarkable elongation of the petioles of the cotyledons, together with their power of penetrating the ground like roots under the guidance of geotropism.