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▪ I. foreshadow, n.|ˈfɔəˌʃædəʊ|
[f. fore- prefix + shadow n.; suggested by next vb.]
fig. A shadow cast before an object; an indication or imperfect representation of something to come.
1831Carlyle Sart. Res. (1858) 115 Fore-shadows..of that Truth and Beginning of Truths, fell mysteriously over my soul. 1852J. M. Ludlow Master Engineers 132 A truce is often the foreshadow of a peace. 1887Kinglake Crimea VIII. 280 The foreshadow of death was then falling on the mind of the Chief.
▪ II. foreshadow, v.|fɔəˈʃædəʊ|
[f. fore- prefix + shadow v.]
trans. To serve as the shadow thrown before (an object); hence, to represent imperfectly beforehand, prefigure. Also rarely (of a person), to have a foreboding of.
1577T. Vautrollier Luther on Ep. Gal. 146 The ceremonies commanded in the law did foreshadow Christ. a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1761. II. xxvii. 288 Our Saviour's death..was by manifold types fore-shadowed. 1855H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (1872) II. vi. xxvii. 297 These intuitions are fore-shadowed in the very first stages of an incipient consciousness. 1860Motley Netherl. (1868) I. i. 23 The surrender of Ghent foreshadowed the fate of Flanders. 1864Dickens Mut. Fr. ii. xiv, Another consequence that he had never foreshadowed was [etc.].
Hence foreˈshadowed ppl. a.; foreˈshadowing vbl. n. Also foreˈshadower, one who or that which foreshadows.
1848Dickens Dombey xx, The feeling..of which he had had some old foreshadowing in older times..was full-formed now. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt xvii, Phrases that class our foreshadowed endurance among those common and ignominious troubles. 1870Morris Earthly Par. I. i. 306 Dim foreshadowings of what yet might come. 18..Chamb. Jrnl. (Cent. Dict.) The foreshadowers of evil. |