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foreglory en · NOUN

Etymology

From fore- + glory.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Glory 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:
   • 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:

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