adj. Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.
v. Present participle of forego.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The act of preceding, going before, or leading the way.
Preceding; going before, in time or place or in a series; antecedent: as, a foregoing clause in a writing.
Synonyms See previous.
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adj. especially of writing or speech; going before
Word Usage
"But in the real world, instances don't yield general truths with anything like the haste of a typical Myers paragraph (of which the foregoing is a parody)."