forestanding

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English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

forestand +‎ -ing

Verb[edit]

forestanding

  1. present participle and gerund of forestand

Etymology 2[edit]

fore- +‎ standing

Adjective[edit]

forestanding (comparative more forestanding, superlative most forestanding)

  1. Standing out in the forefront; prominent.
    • 2003, Zachàr Alexander Laskewicz, Music as Episteme, Text, Sign & Tool: Comparative approaches to musicality as performance, →ISBN, chapter two: “The Musical Text”, § 2.10: ‘Conclusion: the importance of a new approach to text:
      Many existing textual models take for granted assumptions made by Ricœur who is one of the forestanding figures of a contemporary field referred to as hermeneutics (involved with a study of the theory and practice of texts).
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