foretaste
noun
a slight and partial experience, knowledge, or taste of something to come in the future; anticipation.
were foretasting
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past progressiveof foretaste.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Confident of success, they were foretasting gleefully the terror of the stream at sight of the blessed image entering its waters.
From The Torrent Entre Naranjos by Isaac Goldberg
