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語源 1

From 中期英語 forgan, from 古期英語 foregān, equivalent to fore- +‎ go.

動詞

forego (third-person singular simple present foregoes, present participle foregoing, simple past forewent, past participle foregone)

1. To precede, to go before.
   • 1815, William Wordsworth, Methought I saw:

     pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone

使用する際の注意点

• The sense to precede is usually found in the form of the participles foregone (especially in the phrase "a foregone conclusion") and foregoing (usually used either attributively, as in "the foregoing discussion", or substantively, as in "subject to the foregoing").

同意語

• antecede, come before; see also Thesaurus:precede

派生語

語源 2

See forgo

動詞

forego (third-person singular simple present foregoes, present participle foregoing, simple past forewent, past participle foregone)

1. (often proscribed) Alternative spelling of forgo; to abandon, to relinquish
   • February 1762, T. Waller, “The White Witch of the Wood, or the Devil of Broxbon”, in The Beauties of all the Magazines Selected, for the Year 1762, volume I, page 34:

     […] for on no other terms does she desire a reconciliation, but will sooner forego all the hopes to which her birth entitles her, and get her bread by service, than ever yield to become the wife of the ——.

   • 2024, NTSB, Highway Investigation Report, HIR-24-05, Rear-End Collision Between Combination Vehicle and Medium-Size Bus:

     A study funded by the FMCSA found that although several heavy-vehicle manufacturers have voluntarily made AEB “standard” on many new truck models, they also offer “deletion credits” to customers who choose to remove AEB, which provides customers financial incentive to forego the technology and which ultimately reduces voluntary adoption rates

使用する際の注意点

• Many writers prefer the spelling forgo for this sense, on the grounds that it avoids ambiguity with forego "to precede", especially in aspects such as "forgoing"/"foregoing" and "forgone"/"foregone".

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “forego”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “forego”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• goofer