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Definition of Beforehand
Beforehand

In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with.

By way of preparation, or preliminary; previously; aforetime.

In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded.

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Beforehand Quotations

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
Winston Churchill

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
William James

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
George Eliot

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
E. M. Forster

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.
John Polkinghorne

Beforehand Translations

beforehand in German is zuvor
beforehand in Spanish is de antemano


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