Verb
To touch beforehand; touch upon in advance.
Usage- Transitive
Noun
A touch made in advance; (by extension) a prelude or foreshadow.
Usage- Figurative
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Is it progress at all, or is it retrogression, is it light or darkness, is it civilization or a foretouch of the disrupting force of intellectual anarchy and moral decay?
It was as if something of the Beyond unrolled itself in exquisite promise and foretouch; as if great gates were open, through which one day - into which this day was transfiguring - they might sail in to an eternal blessedness.
There was a foretouch of death in the thought.
A foretouch of future shadows fell on them when they heard of Noel and Gregor MacLean having joined the London Scottish.
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In the middle distance a tall white skyscraper stood up, a prelude, or a foretouch to a great yellowish black cloud behind it.
I felt its foretouch.