foremessage

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Etymology[edit]

From fore- +‎ message.

Noun[edit]

foremessage (plural foremessages)

  1. A message given in advance; a prologue
    • 1926, Gouri Prosad Mozoomdar, Keshub Chunder Sen and the Schools of Protests and Non-protests:
      The things as these, were the prognostications or foremessages of the coming of the dispensation as needed by the time they came in.
    • 1992, Encyclopaedia moderna - Issues 37-40:
      Genetic foremessages to the contemporary life have been carried over for a billion years.
    • 2012, Dr. H. Lawrence Zillmer, I Am The Morning Star:
      There is a “fore-message,” a prologue, which introduces the spiritual entities involved, followed by seven visions, and concluded by an epilogue, an “after message” which returns us to the spiritual world.