forestanding

== English == === Etymology 1 === From forestand +‎ -ing. ==== Verb ==== forestanding present participle and gerund of forestand === Etymology 2 === From fore- +‎ standing. ==== Adjective ==== 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). ===== Synonyms ===== eminent, noteworthy; see also Thesaurus:notable