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forepromise

forepromise noun: a promise made in advance.

Noun

forepromise (plural forepromises)

  1. 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

Verb

forepromise (third-person singular simple present forepromises, present participle forepromising, simple past and past participle forepromised)

  1. (transitive) To promise beforehand or in advance
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of forepromise

Noun
pluralforepromises
Verb
third-person singular presentforepromises
present participleforepromising
past participleforepromised
pastforepromised

Origin of forepromise

From fore- + promise (noun).

From fore- + promise (verb).

Questions about forepromise

What does forepromise mean?
Forepromise means a promise made in advance.
What part of speech is forepromise?
Forepromise can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of forepromise?
The plural of forepromise is forepromises.

Words near forepromise in the dictionary

  1. foreprisms
  2. foreprize
  3. foreprized
  4. foreprizes
  5. foreprizing
  6. forepromise
  7. forepromised
  8. forepromises
  9. forepromising
  10. foreprovide
  11. foreprovided

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