Forestatement

Quick meaning: Forestatement is a noun meaning A statement made beforehand or in advance.

Meaning

A statement made beforehand or in advance.

Example Sentences

Ignoring the progressive method of God's dealings with mankind, it treats the Jewish practices and beliefs of old time as having always been mere errors, and thus makes the Old Testament no more than a fantastic forestatement of the New Testament.

The alchemical theory of universal development includes a philosophical forestatement of the modern evolutionary hypothesis which, considering the scientific ignorance and darkness of the Middle Ages, is simply bewildering, and justifies the indignant demand of one theosophical writer for the restitution of its rightful property to " a spoliated past."

Word Forms

• forestatements

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include forepromise, foreannouncement, foreclaim, prededication, preannouncement, foretokening.

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