forelend
verb/fɔː(ɹ)ˈlɛnd/
Etymology From fore- + lend.
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Archaic to lend in advance
- As if that life to losse they had forelent1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Foretelling: Spirits mine, swift death shall end ye, Cruel! if seeing me no tears forelend ye, Sith but the being in thought sets wide mine eyes For sobbing out my heart’s full memories.1912, Ezra Pound, “Ballate”, in Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti: