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
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Betoken, be-tō′kn, v.t. to show by a sign: to foreshow.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Stocks.—These sweet scented flowers foreshow an unexpected happiness with someone whom you have not seen for a long while.
From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Cicely Kent
Prognos′ticāte, to foreshow: to foretell: to indicate as future by signs.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
I behold the day-break, I foreshow, that the sun, is about to rise.
From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey
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 Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
As a boy, he displayed signs of a singularly proud and independent temper, and foreshowed his bent by the delight which he took in the society of military men.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
The day of Pentecost foreshowed the universality of some p. 65language.
From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Joseph Wild
Then the light which appeared from heaven was taken up from their eyes, and foreshowed the ascension of the saint unto heaven.
From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary
But the things which God foreshowed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall
There were many prodigies that foreshowed this victory, but the most remarkable that we are told of, was that at Tralles.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough
There is a foreshowing of the same law in the Physiocratic view that only in the production of raw material is there a real excess over and above the cost—produit net.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher
Lift thy head and thyself baptize In the hopes that radiant rise, Heaven to earth foreshowing, And in each life-spark glowing!
From Poems and Songs by Arthur Hubbell Palmer
"The Tale" is a prophetic vision of the destinies of Germany,--an allegorical foreshowing at the close of the eighteenth century of what Germany was yet to become, and has in great part already become.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam by John Lord
For what does foreshowing avail, if a thing shall certainly come to pass, and if there could be no averting of it either by human devices or by divine providence?
From Dio's Rome, Volume 6 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus And Alexander Severus by Herbert Baldwin Foster
I have translated "Anwá" by Pleiads; but it means the setting of one star and simultaneous rising of another foreshowing rain.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Altar.—If with a figure near, sorrow and distress are foreshown.
From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Cicely Kent
Tomatoes Growing.—An increase of worldly goods is foreshown by this sign.
From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Cicely Kent
"What greater event could it have foreshadowed or foreshown, than that which actually came to pass?"
From Questionable Shapes by William Dean Howells
How you and I should have dreaded this night and to-morrow, if they could have been foreshown to us a while ago!
From Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau
Yet was this fate to thee foreshown, Instead of craving thus the knightly course, Better mine embassy wouldst thou have done.
From Orlando Furioso by William Stewart Rose
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