foretoken
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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
The present state of mystery writing does not foretoken a renaissance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Prognosticā′tion, the act of prognosticating or foretelling something future by present signs: a foretoken or previous sign.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Sign, omen, auspice, portent, prognostic, augury, foretoken, adumbration, presage, indication.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)
All these movements and changes foretoken greater revolutions in the age that was to follow.
From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park
