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foreflight en · NOUN

Etymology

From fore- + flight.

Meanings

1. A flight made before the expected time; a previous or prior flight
   • No speed that would not lag behind the fore-flight of a heart's desire. 2015, George Gissing, A Life's Morning:
   • Yesterday Moscow, to-morrow what nation, are only the foreflights, Straws playing arrow in the storm-van, storm is good, storm is good, good creature, [...] 1988, Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt, The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers:
   • Let winter be less sharp In that the heats of purpose Have winter foreflight in their wings, [...] 1938, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Collected Poems:

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