Definition of Betokening

1. Verb. (present participle of betoken) ¹

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Definition of Betokening

1. betoken [v] - See also: betoken

Lexicographical Neighbors of Betokening

beting
betise
betises
betitle
betitled
betitles
betitling
betoil
betoiled
betoiling
betoils
betoken
betokened
betokenest
betokeneth
betokening (current term)
betokens
betold
beton
betongue
betonies
betons
betony
betook
betorn
betoss
betossed
betosses
betossing
betow

Literary usage of Betokening

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1910)
"It is big with gigantic commercial possibilities, betokening a revolution in our growing international trade, ..."

2. An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great by William Kelly (1851)
"... Precipitate Return—Description of the Sioux—Their Costume— Mode of betokening Friendship—Exhibit our Trading Wares-interchange of Presents—They leave, ..."

3. Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1841)
"... and our own wretched condition in bad roads, puny horses, ragged harness, and incompetent postillions, all betokening his holiness' dominion. ..."

4. The Quarterly Register of Current History by Alfred S Johnson (1893)
"He brought in an amazing array of evidence betokening the distribution of 1300000 francs in bribes among his colleagues. Hardly any leader's name escaped ..."

5. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1859)
"According to my opinion, the electrical fire was then drawing off, as by points, from the cloud ; the largeness of the flame betokening the great quantity ..."

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