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
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 Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
Be that as it may, certain arrangements which the Doctor presently made in his domestic affairs did not seem to foretoken an immediate change of condition.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 by Various
All these movements and changes foretoken greater revolutions in the age that was to follow.
From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park
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