[f. FORE- pref. + WORLD. Cf. Ger. vorwelt.] The primeval world.

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1796.  W. Taylor, in Monthly Rev., XX. App. 517. The Considerations on Monuments of the Fore-world, i. e. of the most remote antiquity, offer many curious remarks on Hindoo superstition and tradition, and introduce some good Thoughts of the Bramins.

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1801.  Southey, Thalaba, IX. xxxi.

            It were as wise to bring from Ararat
The fore-world’s wood to build the magic pile.

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1849.  [W. M. W. Call], Reverberations, II. 95.

        These are our nobles, these our kings,
At whose behest the Future springs
From the Foreworld’s chaotic night,
Gleaming and streaming into light.

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