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Foreshow

Foreshow \Fore*show"\, v. t. [AS. foresce['a]wian to foresee, provide; fore + sce['a]wian to see. See Show, v. t.] To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell.

Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart.
--Shak.

Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose, Whose purple blush the day foreshows.
--Denham.

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foreshow

Etymology 1 alt. 1 (context transitive archaic English) To show in advance; to foretell, predict. 2 (context transitive obsolete English) To foreshadow or prefigure. vb. 1 (context transitive archaic English) To show in advance; to foretell, predict. 2 (context transitive obsolete English) To foreshadow or prefigure. Etymology 2

n. (context obsolete English) A manifestation in advance; a prior indication.

WordNet
foreshow
  1. v. foretell by divine inspiration

  2. [also: foreshown]

Usage examples of "foreshow".

And the people of Ultonia, having entered Dunum, celebrated the solemnities of the Mass, and in the place foreshown by the heavenly light buried the venerable body with all due veneration, and this desirable treasure, this most precious jewel, they deposited beneath a stone, five cubits deep in the heart of the earth, lest haply by stealth it might be conveyed thence.

The grass was dry and bleached after an almost rainless autumn, but the sky was overcast and heavy with the foreshowing of change.

And I, being blind, blamed those pious fathers, not only for making use of present things as God commanded and inspired them to do, but also for foreshowing things to come as God was revealing them.

From without the World, though all things may be forethought in music or foreshown in vision from afar, to those who enter verily into E?

From without the World, though all things may be forethought in music or foreshown in vision from afar, to those who enter verily into Eä each in its time shall be met at unawares as something new and unforetold.