forestanding

English

Etymology 1

forestand +‎ -ing

Verb

forestanding

1. present participle of forestand

Etymology 2

fore- +‎ standing

Adjective

forestanding (comparative more forestanding, superlative most forestanding)

1. 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).

Synonyms

• eminent, noteworthy; see also Thesaurus:notable