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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Thus Dryden, in his version of the Tale of the Nun's Priest: Believe me, madam, morning dreams foreshow Th' events of things, and future weal or woe.
From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander
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
At least accomplish what your signs foreshow: I stand resign'd, and am prepar'd to go.'
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
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
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
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From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by O'Leary, James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)
The day of Pentecost foreshowed the universality of some p. 65language.
From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Wild, Joseph
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
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
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 Palmer, Arthur Hubbell
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 Smith, Lewis Worthington
“Say Pan saith: ‘Let this, foreshowing the place, be the pledge!’”
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)
For what does foreshowing avail, if a thing shall certainly come to pass, and if there could be no averting of it either by human devices or by divine providence?
From Dio's Rome, Volume 6 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus And Alexander Severus by Foster, Herbert Baldwin
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
But time and a right life alone Fulfil the promise then foreshown.
From Victories of Love by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton
They even have a strong belief that the spirits show them the future in dreams; and say that cases of affliction are always foreshown in a dream.
From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by Wentz, W. Y. Evans
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 Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
Rat.—Treachery and other impending troubles, are foreshown by this unpleasant symbol.
From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Kent, Cicely
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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