foreshadow

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To suggest (someone or something) in advance

   To suggest (someone or something) in advance; to prefigure, to presage.

   • [T]he ceremonies commaunded in the lawe, did foreſhadowe Chriſt.
   • [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.
   • "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!"
2. 2

   Of a person

   Of a person: to have an intuition or premonition about (something); to forebode.

   • Another consequence that he had never foreshadowed, was the implication of an innocent man in his supposed murder.
3. 3

   A suggestion of something in advance

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

   • 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.
   • Fore-shadows, call them rather fore-splendours, of that Truth, and Beginning of Truths, fell mysteriously over my soul.
   • The foreshadow of death was then falling on the mind of the Chief [FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan], and he did not, I believe, speak again.

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