Foregoing a title that is meeting resistance (7)
I believe the answer is:
earlier
'foregoing' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'a title that is meeting resistance' is the wordplay.
'a title' becomes 'earl' (I've seen this before).
'that is' becomes 'ie' (short for Latin 'id est', 'that is').
'meeting' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'resistance' becomes 'r' (electronics abbreviation).
'earl'+'ie'+'r'='EARLIER'
(Other definitions for earlier that I've seen before include "at a previous date" , "Sooner in time" , "Beforehand" , "Sooner - previously" , "in days of yore?" .)