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foreshine

noun, verb — 2 senses

foreshine

noun

Etymology From fore- + shine. Possibly cognate with German Vorschein.

1

A shine seen in advance.

  • The Herstal people, knowing the Prussian recruiting-system and other rigours, were extremely unwilling to come under Friedrich Wilhelm's sway, could they have helped it. They refused fealty, swore they never would swear: nor did they, till the appearance, or indubitable foreshine, of Friedrich Wilhelm's bayonets advancing on them from the East, brought compliance.1864, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XI:

foreshine

verb

Etymology From fore- + shine. Possibly cognate with German Vorschein.

1

To shine forth; bring into view.

  • In a moment where the Front is itself so politicized, certain kinds of practices become particularly important - practices that clarify work on emerging and not-yet possibilities; that visualize and make audible latent tendencies; that intensify and magnify the 'uncertain, flickering, and often weak lights' which are dismissed as ephemeral but which may in fact foreshine real possibility; […]2015, Sarah S. Amsler, The Education of Radical Democracy:

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