foretaste
noun
a slight and partial experience, knowledge, or taste of something to come in the future; anticipation.
foretastes
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present tense formof foretaste (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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As spare and considered as their Morton Feldman score, these solos aren’t just foretastes of 1960s Judson Dance Theater; they could easily be the work of a present-day postmodernist like Beth Gill.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2022
If we are in this happy disposition, if we thus become regenerate, we shall enjoy from this moment foretastes of the glory which God has prepared.
From The world's great sermons, Volume 03 Massillon to Mason by Grenville Kleiser
No act of holy obedience is here left without foretastes of joy, which, though they be but 'brooks by the way,' contain the same water of life which hereafter swells to an ocean.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Alexander Maclaren
Some foretastes of the new gospel had, as I have said already, been vouchsafed to me at Littlehampton by Mr. Philpot.
From Memoirs of Life and Literature by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock
But her letters also show that already she was having foretastes of that baptism of suffering, which was to fit her for doing her Master's work.
From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George L. Prentiss
