forepromise

English

Alternative forms

• fore-promise

Etymology 1

From fore- +‎ promise (noun).

Noun

forepromise (plural forepromises)

1. A promise made in advance
   • 1887, Nathanael Burwash, William Briggs, A Handbook of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans:

     The present passage is important as bringing the regenerating work of the Holy Ghost into direct relation to the resurrection of the body as a forepromise of that final deliverance [...]

   • 1952 [250 CE], Plotinus, translated by Stephen Mackenna and Bertram Samuel Page, The Six Enneads, Aeterna Press, published 2015, section 10:

     When it takes lot with multiplicity, Being becomes Number by the fact of awakening to manifoldness;—before, it was a preparation, so to speak, of the Beings, their fore-promise, a total of henads offering a stay for what was to be based upon them.

Etymology 2

From fore- +‎ promise (verb).

Verb

forepromise (third-person singular simple present forepromises, present participle forepromising, simple past and past participle forepromised)

1. (transitive) To promise beforehand or in advance
   • 1837, John Foxe, Stephen Reed Cattley, George Townsend, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe:

     For so God did forepromise in the prophet Isaiah [chap. lxvi.], “ Behold, I will let p'eace into Jerusalem like a waterflood,” die. And in Psalm lxxi. “ In his time righteousness shall flourish, yea and abundance of peace," &c.

   • 2006, Joseph Harry Silber, The Ecstasies of Willaert:

     We will come to them, but first I must provide those explanations I forepromised in the preface: [...]