foreshadow
/fɔːˈʃædəʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.39 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Of a person: to have an intuition or premonition about (something); to forebode.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "[T]he ceremonies commaunded in the lawe, did foreſhadowe Chriſt."
- "[T]hat the excellency and efficacy of this [Jesus's] death and passion might appear, it was by manifold types foreshadowed, and in divers prophecies foretold."
- ""Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said [Ebenezer] Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!""
- "A good man's praise foreshadoweth God's, and in His smile is heaven: […]"
- "Even as the cloud foreshadoweth rain, so prayer foreshadoweth the blessing; even as the green blade is the beginning of the harvest, so is prayer the prophecy of the blessing that is about to come."
- "I have inveigled Tristan and Iseult / Back into this thy court—to Tristan's death, / And my installing as apparent heir, / As thou foreshadowedst."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
foreshadows (present, singular)
foreshadowing (participle, present)
foreshadowed (participle, past)
foreshadowed (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
foreshadowed (first person, past)
foreshadowest (archaic, present)
foreshadowed (past, second person)
foreshadowedst (archaic, past)
foreshadoweth (archaic, present)
foreshadowed (past, singular)