Forebode vs Betoken - What's the difference?
forebode | betoken | Related terms |
To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
* (Nathaniel Hawthorne), The Scarlet Letter
To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
* Tennyson
* Middleton
* H. James
(obsolete) prognostication; presage
Signify by some visible object; show by signs or tokens.
* 1557 :
Foreshow by present signs; indicate something future by that which is seen or known.
* 1853 : ,
Forebode is a related term of betoken.
As verbs the difference between forebode and betoken
is that forebode is to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device) while betoken is signify by some visible object; show by signs or tokens.As a noun forebode
is (obsolete) prognostication; presage.forebode
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Alternative forms
* forbode (much less commonly used)Verb
(forebod)- There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart.
- His heart forebodes a mystery.
- Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Caesar's death.
- I have a sort of foreboding about him.
Noun
See also
* bodebetoken
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Verb
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- “?Ah?!?hospitable land, thou (nevertheless) betokenest' war,” ''i.?e.'', although hospitable, thou nevertheless '''betokenest war.?—?''Bello .
