foreshow

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/fɔːˈʃəʊ/ (UK)
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/fɔːˈʃəʊ/ (UK) · /fɔəˈʃəʊ/ (UK) · /ˈfɔːʃəʊ/ (UK) · /ˈfɔəʃəʊ/ (UK)

Definition of foreshow

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (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

  1. (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.”
  2. (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

  1. (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.

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