Meaning of forehandedness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Prudence, foresight, and thriftiness.
   uncountable
2. Action taken in advance.
   uncountable
3. Wealth, the quality of having sufficient possessions to live comfortably.
   uncountable

Examples

“We can, if we choose⟳ to utilise our experience⟳, be forehanded about these matters. But we shall only be forehanded by creating institutions to compel forehandedness.”

“Any God's quantity of fuss and flubdub to bury⟳ a man, and not an ounce of forehandedness in the whole outfit to find⟳ out whether he was rightly dead.”

“In the opinion of the community at large Stephen's forehandedness in the matter⟳ of preparations for his marriage was imprudence, and his desire for neatness and beauty flagrant extravagance.”

“And with the word, the speaker, in the vehemence of her desire to produce⟳ proofs of her gentility, would hop up on the block⟳ which served for a sort⟳ of stand⟳ by the side of the fire, and reach⟳ down a huge bag of dried apples, which must be "hefted" on the failing knees of the visiter, in proof of the forehandedness of the friends who could afford⟳ to give⟳ such evidence of their interest⟳ in Mrs. Titmouse.”

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