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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At least accomplish what your signs foreshow: I stand resign'd, and am prepar'd to go.'
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
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
There may have been nothing in her early manifestations of character to foreshow the noble womanhood into which she grew.
From Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience by Henry W. Bellows
Tell.Ev'ry day such actions Occur in plenty: needs no sign or wonder To foreshow them.
From The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Thomas Carlyle
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 Sir Walter Scott
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From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary
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
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
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 Arthur Hugh Clough
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
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
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
Prognos′tic, a foreshowing: a foretelling: an indication: a presage.—adj. foreknowing: foreshowing: indicating what is to happen by signs or symptoms.—v.t.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Bonosus, your friend, is now climbing the ladder foreshown in Jacob's dream.
From A Short History of Monks and Monasteries by Alfred Wesley Wishart
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
In all mere providential interpositions, foreshown by symbolic imagery, the predicted events are represented by corresponding acts of symbolic agents.
From A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse by Sylvester Bliss
But time and a right life alone Fulfil the promise then foreshown.
From Victories of Love by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
Altar.—If with a figure near, sorrow and distress are foreshown.
From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Cicely Kent
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