foretype
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type or figure occurring beforehand or in advance; forerunner; predecessor; prototype
verb
To make into a foretype, or exemplify as such; to foreshadow; exemplify beforehand
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "The last member of the trilogy could not well rival in pathos the Homeric foretype[…]"
- "Their unconsummated relationship was a foretype of the chaste marriage of Mary and Joseph."
- "We find the two categories of the foretype and type through which the viewer identified Jesus as the Christ, and later Mary of Nazareth as his mother, as the fulfilment Mary of what was promised or prophesied in the persons and motifs of the [...]"
- "The description corresponding to the foretype, except for the entirely dark yellow spines, which are sometimes brown at the base."
- "It was with this same symbol in view that St. John wrote to the 'seven' Churches, meaning that he was addressing the totality of the one Church. In the Proverbs of Solomon, too, Wisdom, an ancient foretype of the Church, is said to have 'built herself a house, she hath hewn her out seven pillars.'"
- "Paul said the passage through the sea was done “in foretype” (figura). Ambrose adds: “What was foretype for them is fact for us”."
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Inflected Forms
foretypes (plural)
foretypes (present, singular)
foretyping (participle, present)
foretyped (participle, past)
foretyped (past)