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
This latter event was construed by the European public as the foretoken of a new and far-resonant departure in Austria’s treatment of international relations.
From England and Germany by William Morris Hughes
"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
Sign, omen, auspice, portent, prognostic, augury, foretoken, adumbration, presage, indication.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor
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