forerun

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FORERUN', verb transitive 1. To advance before; to come before as an earnest of something to follow; to introduce as a harbinger. Heaviness foreruns the good event. 2. To precede; to have the start of.
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