Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Past participle of foreshow.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
foreshow .
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Examples
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So that the thing fell out to him just as the god had foreshown in a sacrifice.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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And whilst Sylla was departed for the camp, to order the rest of his affairs there, he sat brooding at home, and at last hatched that execrable sedition, which wrought Rome more mischief than all her enemies together had done, as was indeed foreshown by the gods.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Understand, then, ye children of gladness, that the good Lord has foreshown all things to us, that we might know to whom we ought for everything to render thanksgiving and praise.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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[1502] Since, therefore, He was about to be manifested and to suffer in the flesh, His suffering was foreshown.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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This, then, is that end that he is dismissed unto, -- The appointed season for the accomplishment of those glorious things which he had foreshown.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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For they would not otherwise have foreshown the passion of
Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas 1954
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To sum the results of our argument: All things and events are foreshown and brought into being by causes; but the causation is of two Kinds; there are results originating from the Soul and results due to other causes, those of the environment.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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In the case of treasure-trove, something from the All has entered into action; and if this be so, it will be foreshown — since all things make a chain, so that we can speak of things universally.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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For this it is that woman has those special finer endowments which in all ages have distinguished her from man, and foreshown a higher life for her in some future -- some Beulah, visible to eyes that could o'ershoot the bounds of the passing age.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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To far-sighted philosophers, indeed, this was a state of things long foreshown.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various
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