forerun

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

I saw evidences of war-paint and a recent war-dance that forerun an Indian attack.

From Vanguards of the Plains by McCarter, Margaret Hill

No, no, doubtless he was deceived, and it was but one of those dreams that forerun death!

From The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas père, Alexandre