Foretoken vs Forebode - What's the difference?
foretoken | forebode | 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
Foretoken is a related term of forebode.
As nouns the difference between foretoken and forebode
is that foretoken is a prognostic; a premonitory sign; warning or presentment while forebode is (obsolete) prognostication; presage.As verbs the difference between foretoken and forebode
is that foretoken is to betoken beforehand; prognosticate; foreshadow; give warning; presage while forebode is to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).foretoken
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Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Etymology 2
From (etyl) *.Derived terms
* (l)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.