forerun

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It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels.

From Time Magazine Archive

The necessities of the old man prefigure and forerun the dawn of the immortal childhood.

From Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 by MacDonald, George

Prosperity forerun thee: awkward chance Never be neighbour to thy wishes' venture: Content and Fame advance thee: ever thrive, And glory thy mortality survive!

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various

But the reflexes have a machine-like fatality, and conscious aim does not forerun their execution.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

My wretchedness unto a row of pins, They will talk of state, for every one doth so Against a change: woe is forerun with woe.

From King Richard II by Shakespeare, William