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farforth

adverb

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adv

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

  1. To a great extent; far.

    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.

    Thus farfourth good readers, aſwell for defence of my countrey language […] as alſo for honeſt recreation of you the nobilitie, gentelmen and Ladies, that ſtudie not Latine, I haue taken ſome trauayle to expreſſe this moſte excellente writer [Virgil]; […]

  2. To a specific extent and no farther.

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