Forecomer

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who comes before (i.e. prior to or ahead of); a predecessor, antecedent, or ancestor.

    "A grandiloquent proclamation was posted in the town: "To you Prussians, we, the representatives of Russia, turn as the forecomers of united Slavdom," etc., etc., but in reality spirits were low, and soon news was received of the defeat of the 1st Russian Corps at Usdau."

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"A grandiloquent proclamation was posted in the town: "To you Prussians, we, the representatives of Russia, turn as the forecomers of united Slavdom," etc., etc., but in reality spirits were low, and soon news was received of the defeat of the 1st Russian Corps at Usdau."

Etymology

From fore- + comer. Alternatively, equivalent to forecome + -er.

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