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
"Ah!" the wise old lips reply, "Youth may pass and strength may die; But of Love I can't foretoken: Ask some older Sage than I!"
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 by Various
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)
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
