[f. FOREWARN v. + -ER1.] One who or that which forewarns.
c. 1425. Found. St. Bartholomew’s (E.E.T.S.), 43. Now was excitid by the rage of wyndys and the forwarners of variannte tempeste to come.
1626. (title) Sir Walter Rawleigh’s Ghost, or England’s Forewarner.
1684. T. Burnet, The Theory of the Earth, II. 87. It may indeed be made a question, whether this fiery vengeance … will not precede the general conflagration … as a fore-runner and forewarner to the world.
1842. Lytton, Zanoni, VI. v. There both Mother and Forewarner stood in silence,—the sun smiling upon them through the casement, and dark by the cradle, though they saw it not, sat the motionless, veiled Thing!
