foreshow

[ fawr-shoh, fohr- ]

verb (used with object)

, fore·showed, fore·shown, fore·show·ing.

1. to show beforehand.
2. foretell; foreshadow.

foreshow

/ fɔːˈʃəʊ /

verb

1. archaic.
   tr to indicate in advance; foreshadow

Word History and Origins

Origin of foreshow¹

before 1000; Middle English forescewen, Old English forescēawian. See fore-, show

Example Sentences

Before that heaven which our presentiments foreshow us, we cannot easily praise any form of life we have seen or read of.

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Fishes, when they bite more readily, and gambol near the surface of streams or pools, foreshow rain.

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Kine (cattle) are said to foreshow rain when they lick their fore-feet, or lie on their right side.

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Could it read their gentle lines, and foreshow by any ripple of its own, the destiny of her who looked upon it?

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And did the candle prognosticate, I mean foreshow his death?

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