farforth

English

Etymology

From Middle English ferforth, from fer +‎ forth. By surface analysis, far +‎ forth.

Adverb

farforth (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) To a great extent; far.
   • 1551, Thomas More, “(please specify the Internet Archive page)”, in Raphe Robynson [i.e., Ralph Robinson], transl., A Fruteful, and Pleasaunt Worke of the Best State of a Publyque Weale, and of the Newe Yle Called Utopia: […], London: […] [Steven Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, […], →OCLC:

     As for their cities, he that knoweth one of them, knoweth them all: they be all so like one to another, as farforth as the nature of the place permitteth.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     So long these knights discoursed diversly / Of straunge affaires, and noble hardiment, / Which they had past with mickle jeopardy, / That now the humid night was farforth spent […]

2. (obsolete) To a specific extent and no farther.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 3, column 2, lines 178-180:

     Pro. Know thus far forth,
     By accident most strange, bountifull Fortune
     (Now my deere Lady) hath mine enemies
     Brought to this shore