forestanding
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]forestanding
- present participle and gerund of forestand
Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]forestanding (comparative more forestanding, superlative most forestanding)
- Standing out in the forefront; prominent.
- 2003, Zachàr Alexander Laskewicz, Music as Episteme, Text, Sign & Tool: Comparative approaches to musicality as performance, →ISBN, chapter two: “The Musical Text”, § 2.10: ‘Conclusion: the importance of a new approach to text’:
- Many existing textual models take for granted assumptions made by Ricœur who is one of the forestanding figures of a contemporary field referred to as hermeneutics (involved with a study of the theory and practice of texts).
- 2003, Zachàr Alexander Laskewicz, Music as Episteme, Text, Sign & Tool: Comparative approaches to musicality as performance, →ISBN, chapter two: “The Musical Text”, § 2.10: ‘Conclusion: the importance of a new approach to text’:
Synonyms
[edit]- eminent, noteworthy; see also Thesaurus:notable