foreglimpse

[ fawr-glimps, fohr- ]

noun

1. a revelation or glimpse of the future.

Word History and Origins

Origin of foreglimpse¹

First recorded in 1890–95; fore- + glimpse

Example Sentences

My mind's eye presented me with a swift foreglimpse of Donna, her hair stuck into thick strands, her face covered by whipped cream and a blissful expression.

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Mr. Wild is a sort of foreglimpse of the Sherlock Holmes-Raffles of our own day.

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Breathing hard with excitement he turned and laid his back against the panels, trembling in every muscle, terrified by the result of his impulsive audacity, thunder-struck by a lightning-like foreglimpse of its possible consequences.

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But it annoyed him to find that his own explanations were always falsified by the event, while Cosmo Versál seemed to have a superhuman foreglimpse of whatever happened.

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