foreshadow — Dizionario inglese

Verbo

1. To suggest (someone or something) in advance; to prefigure, to presage.

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   [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.

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   "Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said [Ebenezer] Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!"

   A good man's praise foreshadoweth God's, and in His smile is heaven: […]

   Even as the cloud foreshadoweth rain, so prayer foreshadoweth the blessing; even as the green blade is the beginning of the harvest, so is prayer the prophecy of the blessing that is about to come.

   I have inveigled Tristan and Iseult / Back into this thy court—to Tristan's death, / And my installing as apparent heir, / As thou foreshadowedst.

   Thou foreshadowest for us good hopes even for the amendment for what is being left, now that Thou hast already begun to give assent to our prayers, […]

   It all sounds to us remarkably nineteenth-century; Petrarch's romantic sentiments foreshadow with uncanny precision those of Dante Gabriel Rossetti or Alfred de Musset.

   If there is a significant or surprising event in the story, it must be foreshadowed earlier on. When the event that was foreshadowed occurs, that's the payoff.

2. Of a person: to have an intuition or premonition about (something); to forebode.

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   Another consequence that he had never foreshadowed, was the implication of an innocent man in his supposed murder.

Sostantivo

1. A suggestion of something in advance; a harbinger, a portent.

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   foretouchforeshadowing

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   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.

   The foreshadow of death was then falling on the mind of the Chief [FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan], and he did not, I believe, speak again.

Verbo

1. indicate, as with a sign or an omen

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   bodeportendauspicateprognosticateomenpresagebetokenaugurforetellprefigureforecastpredict

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   bespeakbetokenindicatepointsignal

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   These signs bode bad news