foretoken
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of foretoken
before 900; Middle English fortokne, Old English foretācn. See fore-, token
Example Sentences
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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
Or contrast with Addison's Italian letters passages like these, which foretoken Rogers and Byron.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
All these movements and changes foretoken greater revolutions in the age that was to follow.
From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park
"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
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