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foreshadoweth

foreshadoweth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of foreshadow.

Meaning of foreshadow

Verb

foreshadow (third-person singular simple present foreshadows, present participle foreshadowing, simple past and past participle foreshadowed)

  1. (transitive) To suggest (someone or something) in advance; to prefigure, to presage.
    • [T]he ceremonies commaunded in the lawe, did foreſhadowe Chriſt.1575, Martin Luther, “The Third Chapter. Verse 17.”, in [Thomas Vautrollier], transl., A Commentarie of M. Doctor Martin Luther upon the Epistle of S. Paule to the Galathians, […], revised edition...
  2. (rare, transitive) Of a person: to have an intuition or premonition about (something); to forebode.
    • Another consequence that he had never foreshadowed, was the implication of an innocent man in his supposed murder.1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, “Strong of Purpose”, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC, 2nd book (Birds of a Feather), page 289

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Foreshadoweth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of foreshadow.

Words near foreshadoweth in the dictionary

  1. foreshadowed
  2. foreshadowedst
  3. foreshadower
  4. foreshadowers
  5. foreshadowest
  6. foreshadoweth
  7. foreshadowing
  8. foreshadowings
  9. foreshadows
  10. foreshaft
  11. foreshafts

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