foresave

See also: fore-save

English

Alternative forms

• fore-save

Etymology

From fore- +‎ save.

Verb

foresave (third-person singular simple present foresaves, present participle foresaving, simple past and past participle foresaved)

1. (transitive, rare) To save (money or a person) beforehand or in advance.
   • 1848, Furlong Elizabeth S. Harris, Rest in the Church, by the author of ‘From Oxford to Rome’, page 260:

     The mendicant exhibited no gesture of impatience or surprise; he had grown accustomed to such repulses, and he rapidly made the sign of the Cross in the air as the clergyman proceeded on his way, saying so audibly that Ximene at her window heard his words, "God help us all, and may the Holy Cross foresave ye from the need of charity in the day of judgment!"

   • 1907, British Journal of Dental Science, volume 50, page 405:

     The fact that the accommodation is becoming "totally inadequate" is a common complaint from the committees of all medical charities, and does not so much indicate the piteous and pressing need of the poor as the increasing sense of pauperisation and want of moral backbone in the people who are being taught to foresave little for this kind of attention.