foretoken
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The present state of mystery writing does not foretoken a renaissance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Holroyd manages to make each successive phase of Shaw's life seem significant of itself, rather than simply as a foretoken of what was to come or as raw material for the plays.
From Time Magazine Archive
Or contrast with Addison's Italian letters passages like these, which foretoken Rogers and Byron.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
This latter event was construed by the European public as the foretoken of a new and far-resonant departure in Austria’s treatment of international relations.
From England and Germany by William Morris Hughes
Sign, omen, auspice, portent, prognostic, augury, foretoken, adumbration, presage, indication.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor
