foreflight

English

Alternative forms

• fore-flight

Etymology

From fore- +‎ flight.

Noun

foreflight (plural foreflights)

1. A flight made before the expected time; a previous or prior flight
   • 1938, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Collected Poems:

     Let winter be less sharp In that the heats of purpose Have winter foreflight in their wings, [...]

   • 1988, Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt, The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers:

     Yesterday Moscow, to-morrow what nation, are only the foreflights, Straws playing arrow in the storm-van, storm is good, storm is good, good creature, [...]

   • 2015, George Gissing, A Life's Morning:

     No speed that would not lag behind the fore-flight of a heart's desire.