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foretoken

[fawr-toh-kuhn, fohr-, fawr-toh-kuhn, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌtoʊ kən, ˈfoʊr-, fɔrˈtoʊ kən, foʊr- /




















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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

Then he knew why he had been so blissfully happy that evening; it was just a foretoken of the little girl's nearness.

From The Emperor of Portugalia by Howard, Velma Swanston

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 Hughes, William Morris

"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