foreglory

noun

foreglory

noun

Etymology From fore- + glory.

1

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:
1 more example
  • 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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