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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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)
T. O Laertiades! what I foreshow To mortals, either will take place or no; For 'tis the voice of Phoebus from his shrine That speaks in me and makes my words divine.
From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by Conington, John
To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
Foresignify, fōr-sig′ni-fī, v.t. to betoken beforehand: to foreshow: to typify.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
To foreshow these is not prophecy, but prog- nostication.
From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir
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