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Betoken v. t. (past & past part. betokened; pres. part. betokening)

To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. "A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow... Betokening peace from God, and covenant new."

To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens a storm.

Synonyms: To presage; portend; indicate; mark; note.

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Etymology of 'Betoken'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Betoken" Quotes from Famous Books

... been a wild night, find the morning wind sobbed and sighed through the elms, which, denuded of their leaves, stood out tall and bare against the leaden sky, and there was a chill in the air that might betoken snow. Pamela Wolcott stood in the sitting-room window and sighed softly, as she gazed out at the November landscape, letting her fingers beat soft tattoo ...

— An Unwilling Maid • Jeanie Gould Lincoln

... showed herself disquieted by the storm. When the strong puffs of wind spattered the snow against the windows and made the oaken frame of the farmhouse creak, she looked at us apprehensively, as if to inquire whether these tempestuous outbreaks did not betoken some unusual mischief in the shrieking blast. She had been bred up, no doubt, in some close nook, some inauspiciously sheltered court of the city, where the uttermost rage of a tempest, though it might scatter down the slates of the roof into the bricked area, could not shake the casement ...

— The Blithedale Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... the fire, would have formed no bad emblematical personification of the Winter season. Having dispelled the cold, he turned eagerly to the smoking mess which was placed before him, and ate with a haste and an apparent relish, that seemed to betoken ...

— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott

... warm day was drawing to its close; over the sandhills yonder the sun was sinking in a great glory of scarlet and purple and gold. The air was warm still, and yet full of those myriad indescribable essences that betoken the falling of the dew; and mingling with, yet without dominating them, was the sweet penetrating odour of ...

— North, South and Over the Sea • M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)

... for his needs," said he, nodding to the palmer. "These groans betoken a good degree of pain; though the young fellow is evidently a self-contained sort of nature, and does not let us know all he feels. It promises well, however; keep him in bed and quiet, and within a day ...

— Doctor Grimshawe's Secret - A Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne

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