forehistoryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

forehistory (countable and uncountable, plural forehistories)

1. The period of history preceding a given time or event; prior history.
   • 1881, Alexander Balmain Bruce, The Chief End of Revelation, page 84:

     " […] On this territory of dawning forehistory the prophetic narrator has operated with great freedom."

   • 1916, Francis Lynde, After the Manner of Men, page 30:

     Tregarvon knew nothing of this man's antecedents; of the forehistory of any of them, for that matter.

   • 2014, Howard Eiland, ‎Michael W. Jennings, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life:

     Reflecting a virtual correspondence between separate moments in time, and characteristically between the "forehistory" and "afterhistory" of a particular historical phenomenon (Baudelaire, for example, has a forehistory in medieval allegory, an afterhistory in Jugendstil), the Arcades passage brings to light for the present — in a flash of legibility — a "dialectical image," something at once documentary and metaphysical.

   • 2023, Nicholas Birns, The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien:

     Tolkien's lengthened sense of forehistory is concomitant with this dilation.

反意語

• afterhistory