foreweard

• foreward

• IPA^(key): /ˈfo.reˌwæ͜ɑrd/, [ˈfo.reˌwæ͜ɑrˠd]

From fore- +‎ -weard.

foreweard

1. forward, fore, former, early, prior

• Middle English: foreward, forward
  • English: forward
  • Scots: forrit

From fore- +‎ weard (“ward, keeping”).

foreweard f

1. an agreement, compact, treaty
   • His brōðer griþ and forewarde eall æftercwæþ ― His brother renounced peace and treaties. (Chr. 1094; Erl. 229, 30, 31)
   • Būton he ða forewarda gehēolde ― unless he kept the agreements, (Erl. 229, 32: Cod. Dipl. 732; A.D. 1016-1020; Kmbl. iv. 10, 16)

• Middle English: foreward, forward, forwart, forewart, uorwerd, uorewerd
  • English: forward
  • Scots: forward

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “foreward”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.