foreglory
See also: fore-glory
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]foreglory (countable and uncountable, plural foreglories)
- Glory in advance or occurring ahead of time
- 1883, Anthony Copley, A fig for fortune:
- It is the Phœnix of fore-glories Embers: Patience her wing, Heaven is her amount, [...]
- 1893, Charles Wells Moulton, The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review - Volume 5:
- And be it mine at close of life; / This rapture giv'n, / whate'er befell, / Of yesterdays unfilled with strife, — / This gleam of the Unlived to lend / Foreglory.
- 1918, James Henry McConkey, The End of the Age:
- Flooding with fore-glory the pages of the Book they all point forward to one focal spot of splendor upon God's horizon of the end-time upon which all eyes are centered.