Definition of "beforehand" []

• In anticipation. (adverb)
• In advance; early. (adverb)

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• "It gives them, as it were, the title beforehand, to make them feel how doubly miserable it must be not only not to obtain it, but to forfeit it after it had been already ours."
• "I guarantee new customers will never find you without knowing your name beforehand."
• "This is the very case I am speaking of; the man should not have married so soon; he should have staid till he had, by pushing on his trade, and living close in his expense, increased his stock, and been what we call beforehand in the world; and had he done thus, he had not been undone by marrying."