pre-echo

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ echo.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /pɹiːˈɛkəʊ/

Noun

pre-echo (plural pre-echoes)

  1. An early sign or indication of something; a foreshadowing.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 140:
      From the earliest days Christians had searched the Tanakh in their anxiety to find pre-echoes of their own passionate convictions about the God-Man Jesus Christ.
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