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)
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
They say that eclipses foretoken misfortune, because misfortunes are common, so that, as evil happens so often, they often foretell it; whereas if they said that they predict good fortune, they would often be wrong.
From Pascal's Pensées by Pascal, Blaise
