Forerunner Definition

Forerunner Sentence Examples

• But this alliance, like its forerunner, was of very short duration.

• In this way every good thing has its evil forerunner.

• St. John the Baptist is the Lord's immediate precursor or forerunner, sent to prepare his way.

• It is used chiefly in poetry and literature for one who announces the immediate approach of something, a forerunner.

• Accordingly his assertion of the unity of God was at the same time a declaration of the unity of Being, and in virtue of this declaration he is entitled to rank as the founder of Eleaticism, inasmuch as the philosophy of Parmenides was his forerunner's pantheism divested of its theistic element.