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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

Be that as it may, certain arrangements which the Doctor presently made in his domestic affairs did not seem to foretoken an immediate change of condition.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 by Various

"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

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 Blaise Pascal


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