forestatement

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ statement.

Noun

forestatement (plural forestatements)

1. A statement made beforehand or in advance
   • 1888, Thomas Vaughan, Arthur Edward Waite, The Magical Writings of Thomas Vaughan:

     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."

   • 2005, F. J. Foakes-Jackson, A History of the Christian Church:

     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.

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