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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

forepromise en · NOUN · etymology 1

From fore- + promise (noun).

A promise made in advance
- The present passage is important as bringing the regenerating work of the Holy Ghost into direct relation to the resurrection of the body as a forepromise of that final deliverance [...] 1887, Nathanael Burwash, William Briggs, A Handbook of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans:
- When it takes lot with multiplicity, Being becomes Number by the fact of awakening to manifoldness;—before, it was a preparation, so to speak, of the Beings, their fore-promise, a total of henads offering a stay for what was to be based upon them. 1952 [250 CE], Plotinus, translated by Stephen Mackenna and Bertram Samuel Page, The Six Enneads, Aeterna Press, published 2015, section 10:

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From fore- + promise (verb).

(transitive) To promise beforehand or in advance
- We will come to them, but first I must provide those explanations I forepromised in the preface: [...] 2006, Joseph Harry Silber, The Ecstasies of Willaert:
- For so God did forepromise in the prophet Isaiah [chap. lxvi.], “ Behold, I will let p'eace into Jerusalem like a waterflood,” die. And in Psalm lxxi. “ In his time righteousness shall flourish, yea and abundance of peace," &c. 1837, John Foxe, Stephen Reed Cattley, George Townsend, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe:

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forepromising	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
forepromises	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic