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foreshow

verb
/fɔːˈʃəʊ/UK/ˈfɔːʃəʊ/UK

Etymology

From Middle English foreschewen, from Old English forescēawian (“to foreshow, foresee; preordain, decree, appoint; provide, furnish with”), equivalent to fore- + show. Cognate with Dutch voorschouwen, German vorschauen.

  1. inherited from forescēawian
  2. inherited from foreschewen

Definitions

  1. To show in advance

    To show in advance; to foretell, predict.

    • Amid his senses' giddy wheel, / Did he not desperate impulse feel, / Headlong to plunge himself below, / And meet the worst his fears foreshow?— […]
    • What could the soothsayer foreshow that we knew not before? The future is written in the past; and if we prophesy, it is with eyes that look behind.

  2. To foreshadow or prefigure.

    • But if the rays break forth out of the middle, or dispersed, and its exterior body, or the out parts of it, be covered with clouds, it foreshows great tempests both of wind and rain.

  3. A manifestation in advance

    A manifestation in advance; a prior indication.

    • The fore-shew of their inclination whilest they are young is so uncertaine […] that it is very hard, (yea for the wisest) to ground any certaine judgement […].

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Derived

foreshower

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at foreshow. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at foreshow. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at foreshow

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA