Foreshow

Word FORESHOW
Character 8
Hyphenation fore show
Pronunciations /fɔəˈʃəʊ/

Definitions and meanings of "Foreshow"

What do we mean by foreshow?

To show in advance; prefigure. transitive verb

To show, represent, or exhibit beforehand; foretoken.

A sign given beforehand; a foretoken. noun

To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell. transitive verb

To show in advance; to foretell, predict. verb

To foreshadow or prefigure. verb

A manifestation in advance; a prior indication. noun

Foretell by divine inspiration verb

To show in advance; to foretell, predict.

To foreshadow or prefigure.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Foreshow

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The word "foreshow" in example sentences

To foreshow these is not prophecy, but prognostication. ❋ Unknown (2007)

“And did the candle prognosticate, I mean foreshow his death?” ❋ Unknown (2004)

Ruby looked about at the sky for any marks of cloud or air or light that might foreshow the weather, and what they told was snow and gathering cold. ❋ Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain (2003)

I behold the day-break, I foreshow, that the sun, is about to rise. ❋ Unknown (1999)

For all things were done by Thy servants; either to show forth something needful for the present, or to foreshow things to come. ❋ Unknown (1999)

For all things done by those who obey thee either exhibit something necessary at that particular time or they foreshow things to come. ❋ 345-430 (1955)

Like the birds of augury, the living beings of the heavens, having no lot or part with us, may serve incidentally to foreshow the future, but they have absolutely no main function in our regard. ❋ Plotinus (1952)

For if the immortal gods foreshow us the future, by means of portents and prodigies, then it has been openly revealed to us that punishment is near at hand to him, and liberty to us. ❋ Various (N/A)

There may have been nothing in her early manifestations of character to foreshow the noble womanhood into which she grew. ❋ Mary C. Vaughan (N/A)

-- A visit from a dear friend; several pipes foreshow news from a man who is much in your thoughts. ❋ Cicely Kent (N/A)

-- These sweet scented flowers foreshow an unexpected happiness with someone whom you have not seen for a long while. ❋ Cicely Kent (N/A)

-- These foreshow attainment to honour, fame and wealth. ❋ Cicely Kent (N/A)

-- These are a symbol of youth and innocence; this sign may point to some event affecting you and yours which will probably take place about February; if seen in a cross it would foreshow the death of an infant or young child. ❋ Cicely Kent (N/A)

The Divinely sent dream might also at times foreshow some coming event. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

But if thou hurtest them, I foreshow ruin for thy ship and for thy men, and even though thou shalt thyself escape, late shalt thou return in evil plight, with the loss of all thy company, on board the ship of strangers, and thou shalt find sorrows in thy house, even proud men that devour thy living, while they woo thy godlike wife and offer the gifts of wooing. ❋ Homer (1909)

Before that holy heaven which our presentiments foreshow us, we cannot easily praise any form of life we have seen or read of. ❋ Unknown (1909)

But if thou hurtest them, I foreshow ruin for thy ship and for thy men, and even though thou shouldest thyself escape, late shalt thou return in evil plight with the loss of all thy company. ❋ Homer (1909)

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