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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Since these and similar gloomy scenes foreshow future commotions, as we learn in the progress of time, all good men ought to avoid them.
From The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Charles Duke Yonge
Au′spicate, to foreshow: to initiate or inaugurate with hopes of good luck:—pr.p. au′spicāting; pa.p. au′spicāted.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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 Goldwin Smith
Thy father's battle-brand, of yore For Tine-man forged by fairy lore, What time he leagued, no longer foes His Border spears with Hotspur's bows, Did, self-unscabbarded, foreshow The footstep of a secret foe.
From The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
Pyramids.—These foreshow attainment to honour, fame and wealth.
From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Cicely Kent
The day of Pentecost foreshowed the universality of some p. 65language.
From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Joseph Wild
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
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From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary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
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
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 Margaret Fuller
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
"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
As2 = Anticipatory suggestion, a foreshowing of something definite to happen, exciting the reader's curiosity to know what it is and how it is to be brought about.
From The Writing of the Short Story by Lewis Worthington Smith
Last night I dreamt a dream; and still The fear and awe my bosom chill; For in that dream I saw foreshown Our race by Ráma's hand o'erthrown.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
Altar.—If with a figure near, sorrow and distress are foreshown.
From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Cicely Kent
After a new world had been discovered, many scattered indications were then found to have foreshown it.
From The Life of Columbus by Sir Arthur Helps
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 James O'Leary
Nay, the Revolution itself is foreshown in a remarkable glimpse of conjectural prophecy which occurs in the “Telemachus.”
From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson
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