Definition of Foreshadows

1. Verb. (third-person singular of foreshadow) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Foreshadows

1. foreshadow [v] - See also: foreshadow

Lexicographical Neighbors of Foreshadows

foreseer
foreseers
foresees
foreseize
foreseized
foreseizing
foresend
foreset
foresetting
foreshadow
foreshadowed
foreshadower
foreshadowers
foreshadowing
foreshadowings
foreshadows (current term)
foreshame
foreshank
foreshanks
foreshape
foresheet
foresheets
foreshew
foreshewed
foreshewing
foreshewn
foreshews
foreship
foreships
foreshock

Literary usage of Foreshadows

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

1. Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield ; with a Review of the by James Gillespie Blaine (1884)
"His CAREER IN THE CIVIL WAR. — APPOINTED MILITARY GOVERNOR OF TENNESSEE. — His ABLE ADMINISTRATION OF THE OFFICE. — foreshadows ..."

2. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1897)
"However, it was as well that I should go: there was no trusting my father. CHAPTER XLIX WHICH foreshadows A GENERAL GATHERING AT our ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In this Fouquet immediately foreshadows Corot. His "Mount of Olives" and his "Nativity" are two of the most beautiful nocturnal scenes ever painted. ..."

4. The Confederation of Europe: A Study of the European Alliance, 1813-1823, as by Walter Alison Phillips (1914)
"... of Castlereagh—He foreshadows the recognition of the Latin American Republics—The question at Aix—Refusal to invite the King of Spain—Proposed peaceful ..."

5. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature by John Addington Symonds (1881)
"... Transition—A Romance of Art, Love, Humanism —The Allegory—Polia—Antiquity—Relation of this Book to Boccaccio and Valla—It foreshadows the Renaissance. ..."

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