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foreshewer

foreshewer is the obsolete spelling of foreshower.

Meaning of foreshower

Noun

foreshower (plural foreshowers)

  1. (archaic) One who, or that which, foreshows; a prophet or omen.
    • “Ay, ay, a dream, quotha! dreams are but the foreshowers of the future, my mistress.”1842 February, Frances Elizabeth Davis, “Memories of Gibraltar, No. IX: The Merchant’s Daughter”, in The Metropolitan Magazine, volume 33, number 130, page 283

Forms of foreshewer

pluralforeshewers

Origin of foreshewer

From foreshew + -er.

Questions about foreshewer

What is foreshewer the obsolete spelling of?
Foreshewer is the obsolete spelling of foreshower.

Words near foreshewer in the dictionary

  1. foreshape
  2. foresheet
  3. foresheets
  4. foreshew
  5. foreshewed
  6. foreshewer
  7. foreshewers
  8. foreshewing
  9. foreshewn
  10. foreshews
  11. foreshift

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