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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foretime

Foretime \Fore"time`\, n. The past; the time before the present. ``A very dim foretime.''
--J. C. Shairp.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
foretime

"a previous time," 1530s, from fore- + time (n.). Related: Foretimes.

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foretime

adv. In former times. n. A time previous to the present, or to a time alluded to or implied; former time or times.

Usage examples of "foretime".

I slid foretime on the first murmur of the second change-wind I had blown into our stuffy corner of the galaxy.

Yet there is no tooth in any of those museum-skulls that did not daily through long years of the foretime hold fast to the body struggling in despair of some fated living victim.