"forepromise" meaning in English

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          "text": "When it takes lot with multiplicity, Being becomes Number by the fact of awakening to manifoldness;—before, it was a preparation, so to speak, of the Beings, their fore-promise, a total of henads offering a stay for what was to be based upon them.",
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          "ref": "1837, John Foxe, Stephen Reed Cattley, George Townsend, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe:",
          "text": "For so God did forepromise in the prophet Isaiah [chap. lxvi.], “ Behold, I will let p'eace into Jerusalem like a waterflood,” die. And in Psalm lxxi. “ In his time righteousness shall flourish, yea and abundance of peace,\" &c.",
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        "(transitive) To promise beforehand or in advance"
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