forein

English

Adjective

forein (comparative more forein, superlative most forein)

  1. Obsolete spelling of foreign

Anagrams

Middle English

Adjective

forein

  1. Alternative form of foreyn
    • 14th c. Chaucer (Translator); Boethius; De Consolatione Philosophiae; Book 3, Metur 9; lines 2419–2421
      [N]e / forein causes necesseden þe neuer to compoune werke / of floterynge mater.
      No external causes impelled thee to mix [thy essence] with floating matter

Noun

forein

  1. Alternative form of foreyn

Old French

Adjective

forein m (oblique and nominative feminine singular foreine)

  1. Alternative form of forain[1]

References
  1. Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (forein)
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