foreshadow

• At present it is only in local glimpses, and by significant fragments, picked often at wide-enough intervals from the original Volume, and carefully collated, that we can hope to impart some outline or foreshadow of...
• Fore-shadows, call them rather fore-splendours, of that Truth, and Beginning of Truths, fell mysteriously over my soul. - 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “The Everlasting Yea”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr...
• The foreshadow of death was then falling on the mind of the Chief [FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan], and he did not, I believe, speak again. - 1887, A[lexander] W[illiam] Kinglake, “The Death of Lord Raglan”, in The...

Synonyms: foretouch foreshadowing omen augury auspice harbinger portent presage prognostic

• [T]he ceremonies commaunded in the lawe, did foreſhadowe Chriſt. - 1575, Martin Luther, “The Third Chapter. Verse 17.”, in [Thomas Vautrollier], transl., A Commentarie of M. Doctor Martin Luther upon the Epistle of S....
• [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. - a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “An Exposition on...
• "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!" -...

• Another consequence that he had never foreshadowed, was the implication of an innocent man in his supposed murder. - 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, “Strong of Purpose”, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume I,...