ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Forelife

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Forelife is a noun meaning A former or previous life.

Meaning

A former or previous life.

More Meanings

  1. (rare) Early or primitive life; protozoa

Example Sentences

It would be possible in this way to append an entire forelife to ones memory or more than one forelife.
Because all they hoped to create was the lowest kind of life; in their own words, the protozoon, or forelife; whereas Babbage created the highest kind of life; as it should seem, the afterlife, [...]
"But previous to this, my motive existed somewhere in that nebulous fore-life where both men and books have their impalpable beginning; for even you cannot have forgotten that when a certain passionately enterprising young editor asked you for a novel to be printed in his journal, you so far imagined me as to say that I would be about a girl.
[...] Murasaki, who stood before me and with an expression of perfect joy said to me, 'Buddha and Heaven have taken pity on me; for the life on earth, life in Senland is vouchsafed me, a home in Horai is accorded me; in the forelife of the Princess, in the forelife of my lord, Yamabito, was the bond created that presaged their eternal wedlock, when they shall shake them [...]

Word Forms

Antonyms for forelife

Common opposites include afterlife.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include beforelife, past life, preexistence, foretime, preexistency, forebelief.

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