foreshineとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

fore- +‎ shine. Possibly cognate with German Vorschein.

名詞

foreshine (複数形 foreshines)

1. A shine seen in advance.
   • 1864, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XI:

     The Herstal people, knowing the Prussian recruiting-system and other rigours, were extremely unwilling to come under Friedrich Wilhelm's sway, could they have helped it. They refused fealty, swore they never would swear: nor did they, till the appearance, or indubitable foreshine, of Friedrich Wilhelm's bayonets advancing on them from the East, brought compliance.

動詞

foreshine (三人称単数 現在形 foreshines, 現在分詞 foreshining, 過去形および過去分詞形 foreshone)

1. To shine forth; bring into view.
   • 2015, Sarah S. Amsler, The Education of Radical Democracy:

     In a moment where the Front is itself so politicized, certain kinds of practices become particularly important - practices that clarify work on emerging and not-yet possibilities; that visualize and make audible latent tendencies; that intensify and magnify the 'uncertain, flickering, and often weak lights' which are dismissed as ephemeral but which may in fact foreshine real possibility; […]