[f. as prec. + -ING1.] A warning beforehand.

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1548.  Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. Mark i. 15. To geue them forewarning yt Messias & the kyngdome of God were at hand.

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1570.  Dee, Math. Pref., 1. They had no forwarnyng and information, in generall, whereto his doctrine tended.

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1659.  Milton, Civ. Power, Wks. (1851), V. 323. Against that wise forewarning of Gamaliel, fight against God.

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1848.  Lytton, Harold, VIII. iv. He had been more disturbed than he liked to confess by Edward’s sinister forewarnings.

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