fore-gloryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From fore- +‎ glory.

名詞

foreglory (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 foreglories)

1. 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.