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
"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
All these movements and changes foretoken greater revolutions in the age that was to follow.
From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park
As a certain foretoken of war it could not be sustained.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
