The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foretokening
Foretoken \Fore*to"ken\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foretokened; p. pr. & vb. n. Foretokening.] [AS. foret[=a]cnian; fore + t[=a]cnian.] To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate.
Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood.
--Daniel.
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foretokening
Etymology 1 n. indication in advance. Etymology 2
vb. (present participle of foretoken English)
Usage examples of "foretokening".
The rain ceased and the sun began to burst out goldenly now and again between the rents in the clouds, burnishing the gray seas with copper-hued radiance, and lighting up the mists that curtained the Island's red shores with gleams of gold foretokening a fine day after all.
He had the feeling that as dreams go there had been an element of foretokening to it.