forelight

Noun

forelight (plural forelights)

1. A forward positioned or forward facing light, especially one used to guide, direct, or navigate; beacon; (by extension) a signal; indicator
   • Each miracle was a foretoken, and forelight, and firstfruit of the restoration of all creation. When he healed the sick, that cure was a forelight of the sickless state.1864, John Cumming, The Great Consummation
   • [...] but the indications thus outlined of this improvement seem to me but foreshadowings of still better things to come — nay, rather are they forelights — Forelights Of A More Radiant Health That Is To Be.1907, Joseph Stenson Hooker, The Higher Medicine
2. Light emitted prior to or in anticipation of an event; a previous, former, or early light
   • The City, it seemed to her, knew it dimly, with a yearning faint as dawn's forelight, which grew stronger with each passing hour, inevitably.2003, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Queen City Jazz
   • Early in the morning, before the first forelight of dawn had started the birds to prophetic chirpings, the recluse heard light movements in the outer room.2014, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Success