forestanding
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
forestanding
- present participle and gerund of forestand
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
forestanding (comparative more forestanding, superlative most forestanding)
- 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).
- 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’:
Synonyms edit
- eminent, noteworthy; see also Thesaurus:notable