All 3 Uses
forgo
in
All the Light We Cannot See
(Edited)
- You will forgo comforts; you will live by duty alone.
p. 137.7 *forgo = do without
- The castle with its towers and battlements looms below them like some misty vision of foregone glory.
p. 185.8 *foregone = former (in the past)
- Above it a portrait of some foregone officer in a crumbling frame.
p. 257.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(forgo as in: forgo the benefit) do without
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(2)
(forego as in: the foregoing event) to go before
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(3)
(foregone as in: a foregone conclusion) done in the past
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)