foretaste
noun
a slight and partial experience, knowledge, or taste of something to come in the future; anticipation.
foretasted
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past participleof foretaste.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof foretaste.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
foretastenouna slight and partial experience, knowledge, or taste of something to come in the future; anticipation.
Example Sentences
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At the same time, Auburn University officials say the school is expected to maintain consistent undergraduate enrollment at about 25,000 students with no significant growth foretasted.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 10, 2019
Adam foretasted comfort for himself and his descendants.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
In that lonely little closet of his, Pierre foretasted all that this world hath either of praise or dispraise; and thus foretasting both goblets, anticipatingly hurled them both in its teeth.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
For a moment, in the joy of anticipation, a strange light illuminated his face, his lips parted as in a foretasted wonder, and he forgot even to drop the hand he had just withdrawn.
From The Little City of Hope A Christmas Story by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
Between night and noonday there has been the dawn, with its searching illumination, its thrill of faith, the rapture of self-sacrifice in which anchorite and martyr foretasted the joys of heaven.
From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr
