Foresave

Quick meaning: Foresave is a verb meaning (transitive, rare) To save (money or a person) beforehand or in advance.

Meaning

(transitive, rare) To save (money or a person) beforehand or in advance.

Example Sentences

The fact that the accommodation is becoming "totally inadequate" is a common complaint from the committees of all medical charities, and does not so much indicate the piteous and pressing need of the poor as the increasing sense of pauperisation and want of moral backbone in the people who are being taught to foresave little for this kind of attention.

The mendicant exhibited no gesture of impatience or surprise; he had grown accustomed to such repulses, and he rapidly made the sign of the Cross in the air as the clergyman proceeded on his way, saying so audibly that Ximene at her window heard his words, "God help us all, and may the Holy Cross foresave ye from the need of charity in the day of judgment!"

Word Forms

• foresaves
• foresaving
• foresaved
• fore-save

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Related dictionary entries include fore-save, forespend, forepay, forelearn, prefreeze, foreguard.

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