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Great Expectations vocabulary
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aforehand
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Definition:Defn: Beforehand; in anticipation. [Archaic or Dial.]Defn: Prepared; previously provided; -- opposed to behindhand. [Archaic or Dial.]Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Uses:
SUB. How, child of wrath and anger! the loud lie?
For what, my sudden boy?
KAS. Nay, that look you to,
I am afore-hand.
SUB. O, this is no true grammar,
And as ill logic! You must render causes, child,
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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I see the trick an’t; here was a consent,
Knowing aforehand of our merriment,
To dash it like a Christmas comedy.
William Shakespeare. Love's Labor's Lost
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