All 4 Uses of
forgo
in
Mansfield Park
- It may hereafter be in my power, or in yours (I hope it will), to procure him better preferment; but it must not be forgotten that no benefit of that sort would have been beyond his natural claims on us, and that nothing can, in fact, be an equivalent for the certain advantage which he is now obliged to forego through the urgency of your debts.†
Chpt 3
- She felt Edmund's kindness with all, and more than all, the sensibility which he, unsuspicious of her fond attachment, could be aware of; but that he should forego any enjoyment on her account gave her pain, and her own satisfaction in seeing Sotherton would be nothing without him.†
Chpt 8
- If the man who holds it is so, it is by the neglect of his duty, by foregoing its just importance, and stepping out of his place to appear what he ought not to appear.†
Chpt 9 *
- Did she love him well enough to forego what had used to be essential points?†
Chpt 26 *
Definitions:
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(forego as in: the foregoing event) to go before
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(forgo as in: forgo the benefit) do without