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Foreshow  v. t.  (past foreshowed; past part. foreshown; pres. part. foreshowing)  To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell. "Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart." "Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose, Whose purple blush the day foreshows."






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"Foreshow" Quotes from Famous Books



... leaned pierce my side,—I know yet that it is written that the life of which I question can be saved from the headsman. Thou wrappest her future in the darkness of thy shadow, but thou canst not shape it. Thou mayest foreshow the antidote; thou canst not effect the bane. From thee I wring the secret, though it torture thee to name it. I approach thee,—I look dauntless into thine eyes. The soul that loves can dare all things. Shadow, ...
— Zanoni • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... that thou art the best and most discerning person I can consult with. I pray thee, vouchsafe unto me the same favors which thou didst bestow on this servant of mine, and tell me what events they are which the visions of my dreams foreshow. I desire thee to suppress naught out of fear, nor shalt thou flatter me with lying words, or with words that please me. Tell me the truth, though it be sad ...
— The Legends of the Jews Volume 1 • Louis Ginzberg



Words linked to "Foreshow" :   foretell, portend, predict, prognosticate, bode, betoken, omen, presage



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