Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead. But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.
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Foreshadow
//fɔːˈʃædəʊ//
Synonyms for "foreshadow" (89 found)
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4 entriesderived from
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3 entriesTranslations
32 translations across 14 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- նախանշել verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
Bulgarian
1 entries- предвещавам verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
Czech
4 entries- dávat tušit verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
- naznačit verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
- naznačovat verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
- předznamenat verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
Dutch
1 entries- beduiden verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
Finnish
2 entries- ennakoida verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
- enteillä verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
French
2 entries- augurer verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
- présager verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
Georgian
2 entries- მიანიშნებს verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
- მოასწავებს verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
German
1 entries- andeuten verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
Indonesian
1 entries- padah verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
Italian
3 entries- predire verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
- presagire verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
- prevedere verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
Portuguese
1 entries- pressagiar verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
Russian
4 entries- предви́деть verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
- предвосхи́тить verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
- предвосхити́ть verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
- предвосхища́ть verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
Spanish
4 entries- agorar verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
- agüerar (desus.) verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
- augurar verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
- prefigurar verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
Turkish
2 entries- belirtisi olmak verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
- haber vermek verb (to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
[T]he ceremonies commaunded in the lawe, did foreſhadowe Chriſt.
Source: wiktionary
[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.
Source: wiktionary
"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!"
Source: wiktionary
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