foreshadow
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: The verb is derived from fore- (prefix meaning ‘before with respect to time, earlier’) + shadow (“to shade, cloud, or darken”, verb).
The noun is derived from fore- + shadow (“faint and imperfect representation”, noun), probably modelled after the verb which is attested earlier.
Base: shadow
Affixes: fore-
Inflected forms:
form: foreshadows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: foreshadowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: foreshadowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: foreshadowed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: foreshadow
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: foreshadow
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: foreshadowed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: foreshadow
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: foreshadowest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: foreshadowed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: foreshadowedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: foreshadows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: foreshadoweth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: foreshadowed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: foreshadow
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: foreshadowed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: foreshadow
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: foreshadowed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: foreshadow
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: foreshadowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: foreshadowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: foreshadows
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To suggest (someone or something) in advance; to prefigure, to presage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [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!"
A good man's praise foreshadoweth God's, and in His smile is heaven: […]
Even as the cloud foreshadoweth rain, so prayer foreshadoweth the blessing; even as the green blade is the beginning of the harvest, so is prayer the prophecy of the blessing that is about to come.
I have inveigled Tristan and Iseult / Back into this thy court—to Tristan's death, / And my installing as apparent heir, / As thou foreshadowedst.
Thou foreshadowest for us good hopes even for the amendment for what is being left, now that Thou hast already begun to give assent to our prayers, […]
It all sounds to us remarkably nineteenth-century; Petrarch's romantic sentiments foreshadow with uncanny precision those of Dante Gabriel Rossetti or Alfred de Musset.
If there is a significant or surprising event in the story, it must be foreshadowed earlier on. When the event that was foreshadowed occurs, that's the payoff.
gloss: Of a person: to have an intuition or premonition about (something); to forebode.
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
examples: Another consequence that he had never foreshadowed, was the implication of an innocent man in his supposed murder.
gloss: A suggestion of something in advance; a harbinger, a portent.
pos: noun
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
Derived words: foreshadowed
foreshadower
foreshadowing
unforeshadowed
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