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Definition of Forerunners
1. forerunner [n] - See also: forerunner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forerunners
Literary usage of Forerunners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Continental Legal History Series by Association of American Law Schools (1913)
"... Practitioners, and forerunners. — The writers of the first period may be
classed chronologically in three categories : the ..."
2. A History of Continental Criminal Procedure, with Special Reference to France by Adhémar Esmein, René Garraud, Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier (1913)
"... Science of Practitioners, forerunners. Criminal Procedure, before § 3.
Writers of the Second Period, and after the Code of Criminal Examination of 1808. ..."
3. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1905)
"They are therefore commonly called "forerunners of Grotius." The most important
of these forerunners are the following: (i) Legnano, Professor of Law in the ..."
4. The Oxford Treasury of English Literature by Grace Eleanor Hadow (1908)
"CHAPTER IX THE forerunners BETWEEN 1780 and 1791 Mozart was bringing into ...
Of the three forerunners Blake exercised at the time the least influence. ..."
5. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1889)
"The forerunners of the Reformation have been properly divided into two classes.2 The
first of them consists of the men who, in the quiet path of theological ..."
6. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1906)
"The forerunners of the Reformation have been properly divided into two classes.2 The
first of them consists of the men who, in the quiet path of theological ..."
7. Ancient Times, a History of the Early World: An Introduction to the Study of by James Henry Breasted (1916)
"... forerunners OF THE NATIONS OF MODERN EUROPE Justinian, whose reign covered
the middle years of the sixth 1149. The century AD, was, as we have already ..."
8. A History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent by George Bancroft (1858)
"19. men who proved themselves worthy of their forerunners, and whose children
rise up and call them blessed. Heedless of his own danger, Samuel Adams, ..."
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