Usually means: Chose to go without something.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word forewent:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. forewent: Merriam-Webster
  2. forewent, forewent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. forewent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. forewent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. forewent: Vocabulary.com
  6. forewent: Wordnik
  7. forewent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. forewent: Wiktionary
  9. forewent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. forewent: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. forewent: Dictionary.com
  12. forewent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. forewent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. forewent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. forewent: Legal dictionary

(Note: See forego as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (forego)

verb:  To precede, to go before.
verb:  (often proscribed) Alternative spelling of forgo; to abandon, to relinquish [To let pass, to leave alone, to let go.]
▸ Also see forego

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