forerunnership

Hergest_ -- as of Gwalchmai, and Peredur, and Geraint, in each one of whom she had presently discerned an inadequate forerunnership of

Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

At heart he was not merry, and his own unreasoning nervousness irritated him, for it seemed to the Marquis, quite irrationally, that the atmosphere of the cheery room was, without forerunnership, become tense and expectant, and was now quiet with much the hush which precedes the bursting of a thunder-storm.

Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918