foretoken
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The present state of mystery writing does not foretoken a renaissance.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
Sign, omen, auspice, portent, prognostic, augury, foretoken, adumbration, presage, indication.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor
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
