To go away, depart, or make a journey; to fare forth (archaic).
From Old English 'for-' (away, forth) + 'faren' (to go, travel, fare). This verb combined a directional prefix with the common 'fare' verb to create a more emphatic sense of departure, eventually becoming archaic as simpler alternatives prevailed.
The verb 'forfare' is almost extinct in English, but its root 'fare' survives in 'welfare,' 'warfare,' and 'fanfare'—each adding a different prefix to the same traveling/faring root. It's like a fossil showing how productively English once used this base word.
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