foreshadow
verb
- augur, bode
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːˌʃædəʊ/ / /ˈfɔɹˌʃædoʊ/ / /fɔːˈʃædəʊ/ / /ˌfɔːˈʃædəʊ/ / /fə-/
noun
Etymology: The verb is derived from fore- (prefix meaning ‘before with respect to time, earlier’) + shadow (“to shade, cloud, or darken”, verb). The noun is derived from fore- + shadow (“faint and imperfect representation”, noun), probably modelled after the verb which is attested earlier.
- A suggestion of something in advance; a harbinger, a portent.
“At present it is only in local glimpses, and by significant fragments, picked often at wide-enough intervals from the original Volume, and carefully collated, that we can hope to impart some outline or foreshadow of this Doctrine.”
“Fore-shadows, call them rather fore-splendours, of that Truth, and Beginning of Truths, fell mysteriously over my soul.”
verb
Etymology: The verb is derived from fore- (prefix meaning ‘before with respect to time, earlier’) + shadow (“to shade, cloud, or darken”, verb). The noun is derived from fore- + shadow (“faint and imperfect representation”, noun), probably modelled after the verb which is attested earlier.
- To suggest (someone or something) in advance; to prefigure, to presage.
“[T]he ceremonies commaunded in the lawe, did foreſhadowe Chriſt.”
“[T]hat the excellency and efficacy of this [Jesus's] death and passion might appear, it was by manifold types foreshadowed, and in divers prophecies foretold.”
- Of a person: to have an intuition or premonition about (something); to forebode.
“Another consequence that he had never foreshadowed, was the implication of an innocent man in his supposed murder.”