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Foreshadow vs Foretaste - What's the difference?

foreshadow | foretaste |

In transitive terms the difference between foreshadow and foretaste

is that foreshadow is to presage, or suggest something in advance while foretaste is to taste before another.

As a noun foretaste is

a taste beforehand; foresmack.

foreshadow

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To presage, or suggest something in advance.
  • * 2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge 2008, p. 84:
    • 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.

    foretaste

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A taste beforehand; foresmack.
  • A sample taken in anticipation; enjoyment taken in advance.

    • See also

    * aftertaste

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To taste beforehand.
  • To taste before possession; have previous experience of; enjoy by anticipation.
  • To taste before another.
  • *1667 , John Milton, Paradise lost :
    • [...] foretast'd fruit, Profan'd first by the serpent [...]

    Derived terms

    * (l)