foretouch

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foretouch

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From Middle English *foretouchen, fortouchen, equivalent to fore- + touch.

verb foretouches · foretouching · foretouched

transitive To touch beforehand; touch upon in advance.

noun foretouches

figuratively A touch made in advance; (by extension) a prelude or foreshadow. Is it progress at all, or is it retrogression, is it light or darkness, is it civilization or a foretouch of the disrupting force of intellectual anarchy and moral decay?

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@misc{foretouch_2026,
  title = {foretouch},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/foretouch},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}