ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Foreform

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Foreform is a noun meaning An early or previous form; protoform.

Meaning

An early or previous form; protoform.

More Meanings

  1. (transitive) To form beforehand or in advance; prepare

Example Sentences

The most probable foreform must have been the Old Ir. Acc.Sg.f., that is *ayam (cf. Av. imí|m, aeümi).
Mathematics in its foreform, as arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and the applications of the analytic method, as well as mathematics applied to matter and force or statics and dynamics, furnishes the peculiar study that gives to us, whether as children or as men, …
The unconscious is full of artful subterfuge; it shapes our unplanned utterances with unforeseen forethoughts – or foreforms, if one permits such things, for the mind is a repository of hidden and ready formations, a dark library of grammars whose nature is to make possible the inspired and the rash: dreams, talk, solemn unbreakable vows.
This interpretation shows that the thinking of being as beingness is not at all a beginning and so to speak does not arise from a “natural” representation of beings in general, but originates from the swaying of being that ever first inceptually as rising (φύσις) refused the grounding of its truth and along with it let ἀλήθεια become the presencing of what is constant (and thus let ἀλήθεια become the 'fore-form' of objectness).

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Related dictionary entries include protoform, preformant, preformist, preform, preformative, forestage.

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