Foregrasp
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Foregrasp is a noun meaning A prior cognizance or understanding; an awareness or comprehension beforehand.
Meaning
A prior cognizance or understanding; an awareness or comprehension beforehand.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To grasp beforehand.
Example Sentences
Thy great deliverance is a greater thing Than purest imagination can foregrasp; A thing beyond all conscious hungering, Beyond all hope that makes the poet sing.
Each of these terms is the product of the irony which comes from having obtained a foregrasp of mundaneity while attempting to articulate mundaneity within the idiom which mundaneity supports.
Word Forms
- foregrasps
- foregrasping
- foregrasped
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include precognizance, foresense, foreken, preunderstanding, foreknowledge, foregaze.
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