What is "foregone"

Usage examples of "foregone".

The result of the encounter seemed foregone if the savages could curb their superstitious terror, for against their overwhelming numbers, their long spears and poisoned arrows, the panther and the apes could not be expected to survive a really determined attack.

While it was practically a foregone conclusion that any man of the requisite caliber would already be a member of the Galaxian Society, the three planets and eight satellites were screened, psiontist by psiontist, to select the two strongest and most versatile of their breed.

It was always a foregone conclusion that I would live here most of the time, that my parents would come for weekends when they could, spend the summer months and special holidays at the house.

His acceptability to the Emperor Kalif and the College of Exarchs seemed a foregone conclusion, given the support of the Emeritus Kalif.

George McGovern is so close to a first-ballot nomination in Miami that everybody except Hubert Humphrey, Gene McCarthy, Shirley Chisholm, and Ed Muskie seems ready to accept it as a foregone conclusion.

In this concurrence of idleness, distraction, and vehement desire, I found all at once, without any foregone resolution, that I was concentrating and intensifying within me, until it rose almost to a command, the operative volition that Lady Alice should come to me.

The shooter seemed unfazed by the whine of the bouncing slug, as if he led such a charmed life that his safety was a foregone conclusion.

Bloodshed would result that was a foregone conclusion - but only a fool would initiate an assault in the heart of Mara's estate, with her army gathered to pay honor to Ayaki.

Bloodshed would result -that was a foregone conclusion - but only a fool would initiate an assault in the heart of Mara's estate, with her army gathered to pay honor to Ayaki.

Bloodshed would result thatwas a foregone conclusion - but only a fool wouldinitiate an assault in the heart of Mara's estate, with herarmy gathered to pay honor to Ayaki.

Neither wanted to answer, although I think they knew, then, that death was a foregone conclusion.

Both he and Serena considered it a foregone conclusion that they would wed, a rare perfect match of politics, acceptable bloodlines, and romance.

It is a foregone conclusion that they were under surveillance by the ATF and FBI.

She'd also had months of Ruy's charming company to make her answer a foregone conclusion.

This, at a time when most Lords accepted that Mara's death was a foregone conclusion.