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
This latter event was construed by the European public as the foretoken of a new and far-resonant departure in Austria’s treatment of international relations.
From England and Germany by William Morris Hughes
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 Velma Swanston Howard
Or contrast with Addison's Italian letters passages like these, which foretoken Rogers and Byron.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
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