foretoken
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of foretoken
before 900; Middle English fortokne, Old English foretācn. See fore-, token
Example Sentences
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The present state of mystery writing does not foretoken a renaissance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Holroyd manages to make each successive phase of Shaw's life seem significant of itself, rather than simply as a foretoken of what was to come or as raw material for the plays.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then he knew why he had been so blissfully happy that evening; it was just a foretoken of the little girl's nearness.
From The Emperor of Portugalia by Howard, Velma Swanston
All these movements and changes foretoken greater revolutions in the age that was to follow.
From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park
Prognosticā′tion, the act of prognosticating or foretelling something future by present signs: a foretoken or previous sign.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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