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noun
1.
An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.  Synonyms: augury, preindication, sign.  "It was a sign from God"






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"Foretoken" Quotes from Famous Books



... lips reply, "Youth may pass and strength may die; But of Love I can't foretoken: Ask some ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 2 (of 4) • Various

... of them intend the support of the Pragmatick sanction; for no newspaper or pamphlet has yet informed us, that any of the other powers are hiring auxiliaries, or regulating the march of their troops, or making any uncommon preparations, which may foretoken an expedition against the emperour or ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 11. - Parlimentary Debates II. • Samuel Johnson

... leaden-footed oxen, the minutes, arrive it did, in very fact. The eve of that day was a happy bed-time; but over his ardent reveries, over the vista of future achievements, there suddenly, darkly loomed another thought, a foretoken and clammy shroud, which smote the young prince with trembling. For would not the day of his death, however far away also, sometime be the present, passing moment, as surely, just as surely, as this anniversary of his birth? Here ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

... old lips reply, "Youth may pass and strength may die; But of Love I can't foretoken: Ask some ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 • Various

... who predicts] oracle &c. 513. V. predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate[obs3], tell fortunes; cast a horoscope, cast a nativity; advise; forewarn &c. 668. presage, augur, bode; abode, forebode; foretoken, betoken; prefigure, preshow[obs3]; portend; foreshow[obs3], foreshadow; shadow forth, typify, pretypify[obs3], ominate[obs3], signify, point to. usher in, herald, premise, announce; lower. hold out expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation, excite hope; bid fair, promise, lead ...
— Roget's Thesaurus



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