foretoken

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Definition of foretoken

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A prognostic; a premonitory sign; warning or presentiment.
    “Therefore know you Gentlemen (to whom from my harte I wish that it may not proue ominous foretoke[n] of misfortune to haue mette with such a miser as I am) that whatsoeuer my sonne (ô God, that trueth binds me to reproch him with the name of my sonne) hath said, is true.”
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noun

  1. A prognostic; a premonitory sign; warning or presentiment.
    “Therefore know you Gentlemen (to whom from my harte I wish that it may not proue ominous foretoke[n] of misfortune to haue mette with such a miser as I am) that whatsoeuer my sonne (ô God, that trueth binds me to reproch him with the name of my sonne) hath said, is true.”

verb

  1. (transitive)To betoken beforehand; prognosticate; foreshadow; give warning of; presage.

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Etymology

From Middle English foretokne, fortacne, from Old English foretācn, foretācen (“foretoken, presage, prognostic, prodigy, sign, wonder”), equivalent to fore- + token. Cognate with Dutch voorteken, German Low German Vörteken, German Vorzeichen.

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