Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To show in advance; prefigure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To show, represent, or exhibit beforehand; foretoken.
- noun A sign given beforehand; a foretoken.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, archaic To show in advance; to
foretell ,predict . - verb transitive, obsolete To
foreshadow orprefigure . - noun obsolete A
manifestation in advance; a prior indication.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb foretell by divine inspiration
Etymologies
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Examples
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To foreshow these is not prophecy, but prognostication.
Religio Medici 2007
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“And did the candle prognosticate, I mean foreshow his death?”
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Ruby looked about at the sky for any marks of cloud or air or light that might foreshow the weather, and what they told was snow and gathering cold.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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I behold the day-break, I foreshow, that the sun, is about to rise.
The Confessions 1999
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For all things were done by Thy servants; either to show forth something needful for the present, or to foreshow things to come.
The Confessions 1999
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Ruby looked about at the sky for any marks of cloud or air or light that might foreshow the weather, and what they told was snow and gathering cold.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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For all things done by those who obey thee either exhibit something necessary at that particular time or they foreshow things to come.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955
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Like the birds of augury, the living beings of the heavens, having no lot or part with us, may serve incidentally to foreshow the future, but they have absolutely no main function in our regard.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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For if the immortal gods foreshow us the future, by means of portents and prodigies, then it has been openly revealed to us that punishment is near at hand to him, and liberty to us.
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There may have been nothing in her early manifestations of character to foreshow the noble womanhood into which she grew.
Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience Mary C. Vaughan
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