forraign

forraign

English

Adjective

forraign (comparative more forraign, superlative most forraign)

1. Obsolete spelling of foreign
   • 1657, Henry Wotton, Characters of some Kings of England

     discarded into a Forraign Service, for a pretty shadow of Exilement

   • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, London: Andrew Crooke, Chapter 44, p. 334,

     Whence comes it, that in Christendome there has been, almost from the time of the Apostles, such justling of one another out of their places, both by forraign, and Civill war? such stumbling at every little asperity of their own fortune, and every little eminence of that of other men?

   • 1643, William Prynne, “The Treachery and Disloyalty of Papists to Their Soveraignes, in Doctrine and Practise. […] The Second Edition, Enlarged.”, in The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes: […], London: […] Michael Sparke Senior, OCLC 22720680, page 105:

     [T]he Soveraign Power, and Iuriſdiction both in the Roman and German Empires, and in moſt forraign Chriſtian Kingdoms, was, and yet is, in the Senate, People, Parliaments, States, Dyets; yet this is no empeachment at all to their royall Supremacies, or Titles of Supreme Heads, and Governours, within their own Dominions, [...]

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