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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It is unquestionably true that “appointed signs foreshow the weather,” to a great extent, every where, but with more certainty in the climate in which Virgil wrote than in our variable and excessive one.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden
Could it read their gentle lines, and foreshow by any ripple of its own, the destiny of her who looked upon it?
From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy
To foreshow the sins to be treated on the three upper terraces, where are punished those who yielded to the sins of the body, Dante represents himself as tempted by a Siren.
From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by Slattery, John T. (John Theodore)
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
Nay, at the Corner of a branch Road, had a Mind to beg Dick to let me goe to London; but a glance at his dogged Countenance sufficed to foreshow my Answer.
From Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary by Manning, Anne
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