foretoken

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A prognostic; a premonitory sign; warning or presentiment.
    — Therefore know you Gentlemen (to whom from my harte I wish that it may not proue ominous foretoke[n] of misfortune to haue mette with such a miser as I am) that whatsoeuer my sonne (ô God, that trueth binds me to reproch him with the name of my sonne) hath said, is true.
动词 v.
  1. To betoken beforehand; prognosticate; foreshadow; give warning of; presage. transitive

词形变化

foretokens plural foretokens present,singular,third-person foretokening participle,present foretokened participle,past foretokened past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English foretokne, fortacne, from Old English foretācn, foretācen (“foretoken, presage, prognostic, prodigy, sign, wonder”), equivalent to fore- + token. Cognate with Dutch voorteken, German Low German Vörteken, German Vorzeichen.
词源 2
From Middle English *foretoknen, fortaknen, from Old English foretācnian (“to foreshow”).
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