Forepromise
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Forepromise is a noun meaning A promise made in advance.
Meaning
A promise made in advance.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To promise beforehand or in advance
Example Sentences
We will come to them, but first I must provide those explanations I forepromised in the preface: [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.
Word Forms
- forepromises
- forepromising
- forepromised
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include forestatement, foretale, foremessage, foretokening, foreannouncement, presagement.
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