[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That forewarns, in senses of the vb.
1576. A. Fleming, A Panoplie of Epistles, 192–3. My presignificant speach, and forewarning watch wordes, were counted vnworthy credite.
1591. Lambarde, Archeion (1635), 181. These offences might be made exemplary, and forwarning to other men.
1852. Mrs. Stowe, Uncle Tom’s C., xl. 348. Tom heard the message with a forewarning heart; for he knew all the plan of the fugitives’ escape, and the place of their present concealment;—he knew the deadly character of the man he had to deal with, and his despotic power.
Hence Forewarningly adv.
1839. Bailey, Festus (1848), 43/1.
| Festus. As sings the swan with parting breath, | |
| So I to thee; | |
| While love is leaving—worse than life— | |
| Forewarningly. |
