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forewarning

NOUN
threat
Synonyms
STRONG
feeling foreboding foreshadowing omen portent premonition prescience presentiment warning
WEAK
writing on the wall

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The Forewarning, I had a dream which was not all a dream.

From The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith by Hardie, Charles Martin

New life they told to all on earth, New life and blessing bright, Forewarning of the Saviour's birth, In Bethlehem this night.

From In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World by Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith)

"Forewarning," she said gloomily, "is a torture when forearming avails naught."

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth

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