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foreshape

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To shape or mould beforehand; prepare in advance.

transitive

Examples

“Thought forecasts and foreshapes experiment⟳, and traces out the consequences as they arise⟳, comparing them with the sharp directness of its expectations.”
“What the self is to become⟳ thereby ceases to be a fate that haunts it or lies ambuscaded in its circumstances, for the self can foreshape its own⟳ career and reality.”
“Thou canst foreshape thy word; The poet is not lord […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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