Foreshow vs Bode - What's the difference?
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(archaic) To show in advance; to foretell, predict.
(obsolete) To foreshadow or prefigure.
*1841 , Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu, The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England :
(obsolete) A manifestation in advance; a prior indication.
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.139:
To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow.
To foreshow something; to augur.
* Dryden
An omen; a foreshadowing.
* Chaucer
(obsolete, or, dialect) A bid; an offer.
A messenger; a herald.
A stop; a halting; delay.
(bide)
* Tennyson
As verbs the difference between foreshow and bode
is that foreshow is to show in advance; to foretell, predict while bode is to indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow.As nouns the difference between foreshow and bode
is that foreshow is a manifestation in advance; a prior indication while bode is an omen; a foreshadowing.As a proper noun Bode is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) foreschewen, from (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) voorschouwen, (etyl) vorschauen.Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
- But if the rays break forth out of the middle, or dispersed, and its exterior body, or the out parts of it, be covered with clouds, it foreshows great tempests both of wind and rain.
Etymology 2
From .Noun
(en noun)- The fore-shew of their inclination whilest they are young is so uncertaine.
bode
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) boden, from (etyl) ). : Since 1740 also a shortening of forebodeVerb
(bod)- Whatever now / The omen proved, it boded well to you.
Derived terms
* bodementNoun
(en noun)- The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- (Robertson)
Etymology 2
*Verb
(head)- There that night they bode .