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Forerun   Listen
verb
Forerun  v. t.  (past foreran; past part. forerun; pres. part. forerunning)  
1.
To turn before; to precede; to be in advance of (something following).
2.
To come before as an earnest of something to follow; to introduce as a harbinger; to announce. "These signs forerun the death or fall of kings."





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"Forerun" Quotes from Famous Books



... Bishop Oppas marked the internal trouble of the king, and thought a favorable moment had arrived to sway him to his purpose. He called to his mind the various portents and prophecies which had forerun their present danger. 'Let not my lord the king,' said he, 'make light of these mysterious revelations, which appear to be so disastrously fulfilling. The hand of Heaven appears to be against us. Destruction is impending over our heads. Our troops are rude and unskilful, but ...
— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 - Volume 23, Number 5 • Various
... one face today and another tomorrow; but they clearly felt themselves, and it was fully recognized by their time that they formed, a wholly new element in society. The 'clerici vagantes' of the twelfth century may perhaps be taken as their forerun- ners—the same unstable existence, the same free and more than free views of life, and the germs at all events of the same pagan tendencies in their poetry. But now, as competitor with the whole culture of the Middle Ages, which ...
— The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy • Jacob Burckhardt


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