forelife

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A former or previous life
    — [...] Murasaki, who stood before me and with an expression of perfect joy said to me, 'Buddha and Heaven have taken pity on me; for the life on earth, life in Senland is vouchsafed me, a home in Horai is accorded me; in the forelife of the Princess, in the forelife of my lord, Yamabito, was the bond created that presaged their eternal wedlock, when they shall shake them [...]
  2. Early or primitive life; protozoa rare
    — Because all they hoped to create was the lowest kind of life; in their own words, the protozoon, or forelife; whereas Babbage created the highest kind of life; as it should seem, the afterlife, [...]

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forelives plural fore-life alternative

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From Middle English forelyf, foorlyf, equivalent to fore- + life.
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