foreglory

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noun

Glory in advance or occurring ahead of time

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Meanings

nounforeglory (countable and uncountable, plural foreglories)

plural foreglories · alternative fore-glory

  1. countableuncountableGlory in advance or occurring ahead of time

    It is the Phœnix of fore-glories Embers: Patience her wing, Heaven is her amount, [...]

    1883, Anthony Copley, A fig for fortune
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    And be it mine at close of life; / This rapture giv'n, / whate'er befell, / Of yesterdays unfilled with strife, — / This gleam of the Unlived to lend / Foreglory.

    1893, Charles Wells Moulton, The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review - Volume 5

    Flooding with fore-glory the pages of the Book they all point forward to one focal spot of splendor upon God's horizon of the end-time upon which all eyes are centered.

    1918, James Henry McConkey, The End of the Age

Origin

From fore- + glory.

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