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Foreshadow

//fɔːˈʃædəʊ// noun, verb

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Noun

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

Verb

1
To suggest (someone or something) in advance; to prefigure, to presage. transitive
"[T]he ceremonies commaunded in the lawe, did foreſhadowe Chriſt."
2
indicate, as with a sign or an omen wordnet
3
Of a person: to have an intuition or premonition about (something); to forebode. rare, transitive
"Another consequence that he had never foreshadowed, was the implication of an innocent man in his supposed murder."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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