foreshow

[ fawr-shoh, fohr- ]

verb (used with object)

, fore·showed, fore·shown, fore·show·ing.

1. to show beforehand.
2. foretell; foreshadow.

foreshow

/ fɔːˈʃəʊ /

verb

1. archaic.
   tr to indicate in advance; foreshadow

Word History and Origins

Origin of foreshow¹

before 1000; Middle English forescewen, Old English forescēawian. See fore-, show

Example Sentences

Santana’s shift to the nonprofit was foreshowed earlier this year when he was recruited to head a group of philanthropic leaders planning for the region’s recovery from the coronavirus epidemic.

From Los Angeles Times

Nature herself, by her heaps of vegetation, had foreshown the immense productiveness of the soil.

From Project Gutenberg

To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow.

From Project Gutenberg

But Shelley seemed to us an incarnation of what was sought in the sympathies and desires of instinctive life, a light of dawn, and a foreshowing of the weather of this day.

From Project Gutenberg

There is a foreshowing of the same law in the Physiocratic view that only in the production of raw material is there a real excess over and above the cost—produit net.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• augur
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