Use a dictionary to answer the following questions.

what would shakespeare have meant in using the word prevent? how is that meaning different from today's use?
which part of the dictionary entry did you use to find the answer?

Shakespeare wrote in English. "Prevent" meant the same to him as it does to any other English speaker, to stop something from happening. An example is in Hamlet Act 3 Scene 1 in which King Claudius says, "the hatch and disclose will be some danger; which for to prevent . . ." In other words, he foresees danger which he hopes to prevent by sending Hamlet to England.

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