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
Wiktionary
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.