forerun

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

From Time Magazine Archive

These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.

From King Richard II by Shakespeare, William

It cannot forerun the limitations of its day, nor anticipate the conquests and common possessions of the future.

From Spenser by Church, R. W. (Richard William)

In truth his position was a perilous one, and this lull of fierce elements seemed to forerun some terrible explosion—where the storm might spend its fury was as yet hid in darkness.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

To forerun any possible apprehension that he was going to extricate himself and leave her, he held her with considerable firmness, whispering encouragement into her ear the while.

From The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton by Curtis, Wardon Allan