Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FORE-GO'
FORE-GO', v.t. [See Go.]
- To forbear to possess or enjoy; voluntarily to avoid the enjoyment of good. Let us forego the pleasures of sense, to secure immortal bliss.
- To give up; to renounce; to resign. But this word is usually applied to things not possessed or enjoyed, and which can not be resigned.
- To lose.
- To go before; to precede. [Obs.] Shak.
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