Meaning of futurous | Babel Free

Definitions

Of or relating to the future

Examples

“a futurous moment”

“I watched the futurous sun set⟳ before heading back to my era.”

“Only a futurous population will understand⟳ these bizarre concepts!”

“Certainly he has also dared more, innovated more, defied more, challenged fate more than all other animals taken together, he, the great self-experimenter, the unsatisfied and insatiate one, struggling with animal nature and the gods for final supremacy, — he, the still unconquered, the eternally futurous one who finds no rest⟳ from his own⟳ thronging power, so that his future like⟳ a spur inexorably rakes the flesh of every Now of his.”

“America around this continent of ours and training the crews of her men-of-war across the largest and deepest oceans, is certainly an act of very right naval policy, chiefly on the behalf of order⟳ and discipline of industry, labor and trade⟳, of diplomacy and fraternal comity, and, at last⟳, it means an exchange⟳ of civilisation amongst the peoples of the several countries of the young, immense and futurous continent of both Americas.”

“"But what say⟳ I here? Enough! Enough! At this place⟳ but one thing befits me—silence: lest I should infringe on that which only one younger than I am, only one more futurous than I am, that which my Zarathustra is free to do—Zarathustra the ungodly..."”

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