different between foretold vs forehold

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?f??.to?ld/, /fo??.to?ld/

Verb

foretold

1. simple past tense and past participle of foretell

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English

Etymology 1

From fore- +? hold (“to hold an opinion, deem”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??(?)?ho?ld/, /f?(?)?ho?ld/

Verb

forehold (third-person singular simple present foreholds, present participle foreholding, simple past foreheld, past participle foreheld or foreholden) (foreholden is obsolete)

1. (transitive) To hold or believe beforehand; assume; anticipate; predict; presage; prognosticate.

   Synonym: foredeem

   • 2001, Aspasius, David Konstan, Michael (of Ephesus), On Aristotle Nicomachean ethics 8:

     Or he may call "he who foreholds" the one who wants and receives, rather than the one who confers first: he calls […]

Derived terms

• foreholding

Etymology 2

From fore- +? hold.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??(?)ho?ld/

Noun

forehold (plural foreholds)

1. (nautical) The front or forward part of the hold of a ship.

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