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foreshown

foreshown is the simple past and past participle of foreshow.

Meaning of foreshow

Verb

foreshow (third-person singular simple present foreshows, present participle foreshowing, simple past foreshowed, past participle foreshown)

  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?— […]1810, Walter Scott, “Canto II. The Island.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William...
  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.1841, Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu, The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England

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Questions about foreshown

What is foreshown the simple past and past participle of?
Foreshown is the simple past and past participle of foreshow.

Words near foreshown in the dictionary

  1. foreshowed
  2. foreshower
  3. foreshowers
  4. foreshowing
  5. foreshowings
  6. foreshown
  7. foreshows
  8. foreside
  9. foresides
  10. foresight
  11. foresighted

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