Foreshadow
[fɔː'ʃædəʊ] or [fɔr'ʃædo]
Definition
(v. t.) To shadow or typi/y beforehand; to prefigure.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Prefigure, foreshow, foretell, predict, prognosticate, presignify.
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Definition
v.t. to shadow or typify beforehand.—n. Foreshad′owing.
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Examples
- These three parts are not mutually exclusive, but the lower foreshadow the higher and are subsumed in it. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It is not the specific reforms that I wish to emphasize but the great possibilities they foreshadow. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He had proposed a general enfranchisement of the Italians, and he had foreshadowed not only another land law, but a general abolition of debts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One day in July he reappeared and delivered a strange speech that clearly foreshadowed fresh prosecutions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The gigantic expansion of the iron and steel industry was foreshadowed in the change from wood to coal in the smelting furnaces. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The change in the weather, foreshadowed overnight, had come. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Another consequence that he had never foreshadowed, was the implication of an innocent man in his supposed murder. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He foreshadowed the continuation of this new war communism into the peace period in discourses of great fire and beauty. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A very interesting Pan-Slavic conference held at Prague foreshadowed many of the territorial readjustments of 1919. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A still more extraordinary foreshadowing of one of the most recent improvements of the Electric Telegraph was the transference of written letters from one place to another by electric agency. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- This struggle within the Franciscan Order is a very interesting one, because it foreshadows the great troubles that were coming to Christendom. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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