foreshine

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ shine. Possibly cognate with German Vorschein.

Noun

foreshine (plural foreshines)

1. A shine seen in advance.
   • 1864, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XI:

     The Herstal people, knowing the Prussian recruiting-system and other rigours, were extremely unwilling to come under Friedrich Wilhelm's sway, could they have helped it. They refused fealty, swore they never would swear: nor did they, till the appearance, or indubitable foreshine, of Friedrich Wilhelm's bayonets advancing on them from the East, brought compliance.

Verb

foreshine (third-person singular simple present foreshines, present participle foreshining, simple past and past participle foreshone)

1. To shine forth; bring into view.
   • 2015, Sarah S. Amsler, The Education of Radical Democracy:

     In a moment where the Front is itself so politicized, certain kinds of practices become particularly important - practices that clarify work on emerging and not-yet possibilities; that visualize and make audible latent tendencies; that intensify and magnify the 'uncertain, flickering, and often weak lights' which are dismissed as ephemeral but which may in fact foreshine real possibility; […]