foreshow
Americanverb (used with object)
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to show beforehand.
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foretell; foreshadow.
verb
Etymology
Origin of foreshow
before 1000; Middle English forescewen, Old English forescēawian. See fore-, show
Example Sentences
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Dreams, omens, auguries foreshow Our coming lot of weal and woe: But thou, my Ráma, couldst not see The grievous blow which falls on thee.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
To foreshow these is not prophecy, but prog- nostication.
From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir
Pipe.—A visit from a dear friend; several pipes foreshow news from a man who is much in your thoughts.
From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Kent, Cicely
Ah me! my present woe Does but the pangs to come foreshow, Pangs that an end will never know.
From Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Smith, Goldwin
I behold the day-break, I foreshow, that the sun, is about to rise.
From The Confessions of St. Augustine by Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie)
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