Pre-echo

//pɹiːˈɛkəʊ// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An early sign or indication of something; a foreshadowing. countable

    "From the earliest days Christians had searched the Tanakh in their anxiety to find pre-echoes of their own passionate convictions about the God-Man Jesus Christ."

  2. 2
    A digital audio compression artifact where a (typically percussive) sound is heard before it should occur. countable, uncountable

Synonyms

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forward echo

Example

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"From the earliest days Christians had searched the Tanakh in their anxiety to find pre-echoes of their own passionate convictions about the God-Man Jesus Christ."

Etymology

From pre- + echo.

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