foredeem
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Which [maid] could guess and foredeem of things past, present, and to come."
- "And of a beste, then fordeme the worst frende it was more standing with humanitee and gentlenesse to hope the best, then to foredeme the worste"
- "Laugh at your misery, as foredeeming you / An idle meteor."
- "The doctor was as curious to learn how his suggestions would affect the conduct of Mrs. Radford when she should report to Blackwood, and he rightly foredeemed an early conference at the Lexington Avenue residence."
Etymology
From Middle English *foredemen, from Old English foredēman (“to prejudge”), equivalent to fore- + deem.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *foredemen, foredēman
Usage
Inflected Forms
foredeems (present, singular)
foredeeming (participle, present)
foredeemed (participle, past)
foredeemed (past)
foredeme (alternative, obsolete)