foreshow
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Definition of foreshow
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(archaic, transitive)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.”
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verb
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(archaic, transitive)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.”
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(obsolete, transitive)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.”
noun
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(obsolete)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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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.
Words you can make from foreshow
140 playable · top: WHOOFS (15 pts)
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6 words5-letter words
30 words- HOWFS 14 pts
- WHOOF 14 pts
- FRESH 11 pts
- FROSH 11 pts
- FROWS 11 pts
- HOOFS 11 pts
- HOWES 11 pts
- SHREW 11 pts
- WHORE 11 pts
- WHOSE 11 pts
- WHOSO 11 pts
- WOOFS 11 pts
- WOOSH 11 pts
- FORES 8 pts
- FROES 8 pts
- HEROS 8 pts
- HOERS 8 pts
- HORSE 8 pts
- HOSER 8 pts
- RESOW 8 pts
- ROOFS 8 pts
- SEROW 8 pts
- SHERO 8 pts
- SHOER 8 pts
- SHORE 8 pts
- SOWER 8 pts
- SWORE 8 pts
- WOOER 8 pts
- WORSE 8 pts
- ROOSE 5 pts
4-letter words
39 words- HOWF 13 pts
- FEHS 10 pts
- FROW 10 pts
- HEWS 10 pts
- HOOF 10 pts
- HOWE 10 pts
- HOWS 10 pts
- SHEW 10 pts
- SHOW 10 pts
- WOOF 10 pts
- FOES 7 pts
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- OWES 7 pts
- OWSE 7 pts
- REFS 7 pts
- RESH 7 pts
- RHOS 7 pts
- ROOF 7 pts
- ROWS 7 pts
- SERF 7 pts
- SHOE 7 pts
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- WOES 7 pts
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- WORE 7 pts
- EROS 4 pts
- ORES 4 pts
- ROES 4 pts
- ROOS 4 pts
- ROSE 4 pts
- SORE 4 pts
3-letter words
43 words- FEH 9 pts
- FEW 9 pts
- FOH 9 pts
- HEW 9 pts
- HOW 9 pts
- WHO 9 pts
- EFS 6 pts
- FER 6 pts
- FES 6 pts
- FOE 6 pts
- FOO 6 pts
- FOR 6 pts
- FRO 6 pts
- HER 6 pts
- HES 6 pts
- HOE 6 pts
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- OHO 6 pts
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- OOF 6 pts
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- ROW 6 pts
- SEW 6 pts
- SHE 6 pts
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- SOH 6 pts
- SOW 6 pts
- WOE 6 pts
- WOO 6 pts
- WOS 6 pts
- ERS 3 pts
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- ORE 3 pts
- ORS 3 pts
- OSE 3 pts
- RES 3 pts
- ROE 3 pts
- ROO 3 pts
- SER 3 pts
2-letter words
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