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Forebode vs Betoken - What's the difference?

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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

English

Alternative forms

* forbode (much less commonly used)

Verb

(forebod)
  • To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
  • * (Nathaniel Hawthorne), The Scarlet Letter
    • 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.
  • 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
    • His heart forebodes a mystery.
  • * Middleton
    • Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Caesar's death.
  • * H. James
    • I have a sort of foreboding about him.

    Noun

  • (obsolete) prognostication; presage

    • See also

    * bode

    betoken

    English

    Verb

  • Signify by some visible object; show by signs or tokens.
  • * 1557 : ?], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4bZPHQAACAAJ&dq=betokeneth&ei=d6N7SafwL5P2Mdas2JYE page unknown (Ihon Kyngstone)
    • There be other 2 signes in often use of which the first is made thus?+?and betokeneth' more?:?the other is thus made?–?and ' betokeneth lesse.
  • Foreshow by present signs; indicate something future by that which is seen or known.
  • * 1853 : , page 474 (Harper & Brothers, 329 & 331 Pearl Street, Franklin Square, New York)
    • “?Ah?!?hospitable land, thou (nevertheless) betokenest' war,” ''i.?e.'', although hospitable, thou nevertheless '''betokenest war.?—?''Bello .

    Synonyms

    * (signify) indicate, mark, note * (foreshow) portend, presage

    References

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