All 5 Uses of
forgo
in
Anna Karenina
- When she got her husband's letter, she knew then at the bottom of her heart that everything would go on in the old way, that she would not have the strength of will to forego her position, to abandon her son, and to join her lover.†
Part 3 *
- One would have thought he must have understood that society was closed for him and Anna; but now some vague ideas had sprung up in his brain that this was only the case in old-fashioned days, and that now with the rapidity of modern progress (he had unconsciously become by now a partisan of every sort of progress) the views of society had changed, and that the question whether they would be received in society was not a foregone conclusion.†
Part 5
- He knew too that, regardless of all the pleasure he felt in taking a swarm, he must forego that pleasure, and leave the old man to see to the bees alone, while he talked to the peasants who had come after him to the bee-house.†
Part 8
- On the other hand, both political science and common sense teach us that in matters of state, and especially in the matter of war, private citizens must forego their personal individual will.†
Part 8
- And now, according to Sergey Ivanovitch's account, the people had foregone this privilege they had bought at such a costly price.†
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Definitions:
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(foregone as in: a foregone conclusion) done in the past
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(forgo as in: forgo the benefit) do without