foredream

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Definition of foredream

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. a dream dreamt in advance, especially regarding a future condition or event; a hopeful expectation; a hope
    “[…] with its impressive motto, were all subservient to that grave and visioned mood in which the moral thought of this life, and foredream of the next, steal with a luxurious melancholy over the heart.”
    “She remembered her terrible foredream of the sack of Turbansk and felt a suffocating despair rising in her breast.”
    “We piece a foredream of the gathered light Infinitely small and great to shelter all, […]”
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noun

  1. a dream dreamt in advance, especially regarding a future condition or event; a hopeful expectation; a hope
    “[…] with its impressive motto, were all subservient to that grave and visioned mood in which the moral thought of this life, and foredream of the next, steal with a luxurious melancholy over the heart.”
    “She remembered her terrible foredream of the sack of Turbansk and felt a suffocating despair rising in her breast.”
    “We piece a foredream of the gathered light Infinitely small and great to shelter all, […]”

verb

  1. (transitive)to dream beforehand, especially as a premonition
    “She had used the only means, and the strongest means, of bringing Gilbert back to France; she had foredreamt his coming, she had foreknown that from the first he would ask for Beatrix; […]”
    “Foredreaming the faith of the future, He knew and preached the truth: […]”
    “With regard to dreams, there is one interesting fact to be noted here: the belief, namely, that in prophetic dreams of death it will always be a veyola (real kinsman), usually the sister's son, who will foredream his uncle's death.”
    “[…] but the marriage of Basil with a Goth, his renunciation of Catholicism, and with it the Imperial cause, were greater things, and together with their attainment she foredreamt the greatest of all, Totila's complete conquest of Italy.”

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Etymology

From fore- + dream.

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