foretouch
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A touch made in advance; (by extension) a prelude or foreshadow.
Example Sentences
- "Is it progress at all, or is it retrogression, is it light or darkness, is it civilization or a foretouch of the disrupting force of intellectual anarchy and moral decay?"
- "It was as if something of the Beyond unrolled itself in exquisite promise and foretouch; as if great gates were open, through which one day - into which this day was transfiguring - they might sail in to an eternal blessedness."
- "There was a foretouch of death in the thought."
- "A foretouch of future shadows fell on them when they heard of Noel and Gregor MacLean having joined the London Scottish."
- "In the middle distance a tall white skyscraper stood up, a prelude, or a foretouch to a great yellowish black cloud behind it."
- "I felt its foretouch."