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English
Etymology
From fore- + glory.
Noun
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.