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foreshadow

verb

  1. augur, bode
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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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.