Foreshadow vs Forbid - What's the difference?
foreshadow | forbid |
To presage, or suggest something in advance.
* 2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge 2008, p. 84:
To disallow; to proscribe.
* 1908 ,
To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
* Shakespeare
To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To accurse; to blast.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To defy; to challenge.
In lang=en terms the difference between foreshadow and forbid
is that foreshadow is to presage, or suggest something in advance while forbid is to oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.As verbs the difference between foreshadow and forbid
is that foreshadow is to presage, or suggest something in advance while forbid is to disallow; to proscribe.foreshadow
English
Verb
(en verb)- It all sounds to us remarkably nineteenth-century; Petrarch's romantic sentiments foreshadow with uncanny precision those of Dante Gabriel Rossetti or Alfred de Musset.
forbid
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Verb
- Smoking in the restaurant is forbidden .
- the Mole recollected that animal-etiquette forbade any sort of comment on the sudden disappearance of one's friends at any moment, for any reason or no reason whatever.
- Have I not forbid her my house?
- An impassable river forbids the approach of the army.
- a blaze of glory that forbids the sight
- He shall live a man forbid .
