foredream

plural foredreams

1. a dream dreamt in advance, especially regarding a future condition or event; a hopeful expectation; a hope

   We piece a foredream of the gathered light Infinitely small and great to shelter all, […]

   2013, Wendell Berry, This Day: New and Collected Sabbath Poems 1979 - 2012

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   […] with its impressive motto, were all subservient to that grave and visioned mood in which the moral thought of this life, and foredream of the next, steal with a luxurious melancholy over the heart.

   1833, The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, Parochial History, and Documents Respecting the State of the Poor, Progress of Education, &c, Volume 4

   She remembered her terrible foredream of the sack of Turbansk and felt a suffocating despair rising in her breast.

   2010, Alison Croggon, The Riddle: The Second Book of Pellinor

present singular third person foredreams · participle present foredreaming · participle past foredreamed · past foredreamed · participle past foredreamt · past foredreamt

1. transitiveto dream beforehand, especially as a premonition

   Foredreaming the faith of the future, He knew and preached the truth: […]

   1964, Jacob Trapp, Modern religious poems, a contemporary anthology

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   She had used the only means, and the strongest means, of bringing Gilbert back to France; she had foredreamt his coming, she had foreknown that from the first he would ask for Beatrix; […]

   1899, Francis Marion Crawford, Via crucis: a romance of the second crusade

   With regard to dreams, there is one interesting fact to be noted here: the belief, namely, that in prophetic dreams of death it will always be a veyola (real kinsman), usually the sister's son, who will foredream his uncle's death.

   1996, Robert Alan Segal, Psychology and Myth

   […] but the marriage of Basil with a Goth, his renunciation of Catholicism, and with it the Imperial cause, were greater things, and together with their attainment she foredreamt the greatest of all, Totila's complete conquest of Italy.

   2013, George Gissing, Delphi Complete Works of George Gissing (Illustrated)