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- verb Present participle of
foreshew .
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Examples
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Old Tobias dieth at the age of a hundred and two years, after exhorting his son and grandsons to piety, foreshewing that Ninive shall be destroyed, and Jerusalem rebuilt.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 17: Tobias The Challoner Revision
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Four white pigeons guided the chariot with great diligence, and when Venus was entred in a number of sparrowes flew chirping about, making signe of joy, and all other kind of birds sang sweetly, foreshewing the comming of the great goddesse: the clouds gave place, the heavens opened, and received her joyfully, the birds that followed nothing feared the Eagle, Hawkes, or other ravenous foules of the aire.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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David, in the person of Christ, prayeth against his persecutors: prophetically foreshewing the punishments that shall fall upon them.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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A vision of the resurrection of dry bones, foreshewing the deliverance of the people from their captivity.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 31: Ezechiel The Challoner Revision
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David, in the person of Christ, prayeth against his persecutors: prophetecally foreshewing the punishments that shall fall upon them.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision
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A vision of the resurrection of dry bones, foreshewing the deliverance of the people from their captivity.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Old Tobias dieth at the age of a hundred and two years, after exhorting his son and grandsons to piety, foreshewing that Ninive shall be destroyed, and Jerusalem rebuilt.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Now bicause this happened in the winter time, it séemed against nature, and therefore it was the more noted as a foreshewing of some trouble and calamitie to come.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (4 of 12) Stephan Earle Of Bullongne Raphael Holinshed
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This is one of the chiefest of the propositions of this psalm, foreshewing the firm establishment of the one, true, and everlasting sanctuary of God, in his church.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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This is one of the chiefest of the propositions of this psalm, foreshewing the firm establishment of the one, true, and everlasting sanctuary of God, in his church.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision
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