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forerun

verb

Etymology

From fore- + run. Piecewise cognate of Swedish förrinna.

  1. derived from *h₃reyH-✻ — “to boil, churn”
  2. inherited from *rinnaną✻ — “to run”
  3. derived from rinna — “to run”
  4. inherited from rinnan
  5. inherited from runnen
  6. prefixed as forerun — “fore + run”

Definitions

  1. To run in front.

    • Bailey still sat, doubled over his book […] A finger forerunning his eyes along the page.

  2. To precede

    To precede; to forecast or foreshadow.

    • These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
    • And in herself she moan’d, ‘Too late, too late!’ / Till in the cold wind that foreruns the morn, / A blot in heaven, the Raven, flying high, / Croak’d, […]
    • Discontent foreran the Two Mutinies, and more or less it lurkingly survived them.

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Derived

forerunner

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA