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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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 Kent, Cicely
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)
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
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
What if some demon should my death foreshow, Or bid me change, and to the Christians go; Will you not think I merit some reward, When I my love above my life regard?
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Scott, Walter, Sir
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 Clough, Arthur Hugh
The day of Pentecost foreshowed the universality of some p. 65language.
From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Wild, Joseph
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From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by O'Leary, James
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 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
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 Hall, Newton Marshall
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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
"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 Lord, John
But Shelley seemed to us an incarnation of what was sought in the sympathies and desires of instinctive life, a light of dawn, and a foreshowing of the weather of this day.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret
Sometimes the second-sight consists of a picture clearly foreshowing some coming event; more frequently, perhaps, the glimpse of the future is given in some symbolical appearance.
From Clairvoyance and Occult Powers by Panchadasi, Swami
And at that very time Mithridates, it is said, saw a vision in his dream foreshowing what should come to pass.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh
Nature herself, by her heaps of vegetation, had foreshown the immense productiveness of the soil.
From Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound by Denny, Emily Inez
Altar.—If with a figure near, sorrow and distress are foreshown.
From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Kent, Cicely
CLXXXVIII The Place of his Sepulture is foreshown by a Light from Heaven.
From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by O'Leary, James
Bonosus, your friend, is now climbing the ladder foreshown in Jacob's dream.
From A Short History of Monks and Monasteries by Wishart, Alfred Wesley
Such a closing scene one day to be repeated is foreshown to us, when we look at an ignorant and thoughtless father surrounded by his untaught children.
From An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by Foster, John
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