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Grammar : Verb
Spell : fawr-shad-oh, fohr-
Phonetic Transcription : fɔrˈʃæd oʊ, foʊr-

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Définition of foreshadowing

Origin :
  • 1570s, from fore- + shadow (v.); the notion is of a shadow thrown before an advancing material object as an image of something suggestive of what is to come. Related: Foreshadowed; foreshadowing.
  • verb indicate
Example sentences :
  • There must have been a foreshadowing in her soul of the man's reliability, though she knew it not.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • Diana watched this foreshadowing of tragedy with tight lips, pale cheeks.
  • Extract from : « Mistress Wilding » by Rafael Sabatini
  • This is no mere jest, but a foreshadowing of Pietro Aretino.
  • Extract from : « The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy » by Jacob Burckhardt
  • I asked, wondering at my indifference to this foreshadowing of triumph.
  • Extract from : « The Plum Tree » by David Graham Phillips
  • Before I knew the history of the saints, I had a foreshadowing of their ecstasy.
  • Extract from : « Romola » by George Eliot
  • Such is the report I have of them, and I presume the reality is equal to the foreshadowing.
  • Extract from : « Glances at Europe » by Horace Greeley
  • But nothing in the least foreshadowing this had been wrought even by them.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte » by William Milligan Sloane
  • In this foreshadowing interval too, all humor, forced or natural, vanished.
  • Extract from : « Moby Dick; or The Whale » by Herman Melville
  • It was a foreshadowing of a certain event now pretty sure to happen.
  • Extract from : « The Guardian Angel » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • We saw a foreshadowing of this delightful future in the water.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 » by Various
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