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Forerunner   /fˈɔrˌənər/   Listen
noun
Forerunner  n.  
1.
A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever. "Whither the forerunner in for us entered, even Jesus." "My elder brothers, my forerunners, came."
2.
A predecessor; an ancestor. (Obs.)
3.
(Naut.) A piece of rag terminating the log line.





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"Forerunner" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the price both of hogs and poultry, has, in Great Britain, been frequently imputed to the diminution of the number of cottagers and other small occupiers of land; an event which has in every part of Europe been the immediate forerunner of improvement and better cultivation, but which at the same time may have contributed to raise the price of those articles, both somewhat sooner and somewhat faster than it would otherwise have risen. As the poorest family can often maintain ...
— An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations • Adam Smith
... Connecticut mechanic in the Revolutionary war were the forerunner of a movement which took almost a hundred years to become generally accepted. We have been accustomed to say that Ericsson's armor-clad monitor revolutionized naval warfare; but the perfection of the torpedo is forcing the armor-clad ships into disuse, ...
— The Naval History of the United States - Volume 1 (of 2) • Willis J. Abbot
... suggested by the Prester John legend, of a deliverer in the shape of an emperor who should come from the East, who should be the last of his name; should right all wrongs; should establish the empire in universal justice and peace; and, in short, should be the forerunner of the kingdom of Christ on earth. This notion or mystical hope took increasing root during the fifteenth century, and is to be found in many respects embodied in the spurious constitutions mentioned, which bore respectively the names of the Emperors ...
— German Culture Past and Present • Ernest Belfort Bax
... never stray, But lick up ev'ry blockhead in the way. Thee shall the Patriot, thee the Courtier taste, And ev'ry year be duller than the last; Till rais'd from booths, to theatre, to court, Her seat imperial Dulness shall transport. Already Opera prepares the way, The sure forerunner of her gentle sway: Let her thy heart, next drabs and dice, engage, The third mad passion of thy doting age. Teach thou the warring Polypheme to roar, And scream thyself as none e'er scream'd before! To ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 • Various
... man inspires and trains other men to be mighty. We wonder and exclaim often at the slaughter of Goliath by David, and we forget that David was the forerunner of a race of fearless, ...
— When the Holy Ghost is Come • Col. S. L. Brengle


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