forerun

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Men of letters forerun science as the morning star the dawn.

From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Smith, Alexander

Indeed, the signs of his fall, or those that forerun it, are terrible, and amazing to behold.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John

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

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