Foretoken vs Omen - What's the difference?
foretoken | omen | Related terms |
Something which portends or is perceived to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; an augury or foreboding.
* 1856 , (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
prophetic significance
To be an omen of.
To divine or predict from omens.
Foretoken is a related term of omen.
As nouns the difference between foretoken and omen
is that foretoken is a prognostic; a premonitory sign; warning or presentment while omen is (adult male human).As a verb foretoken
is to betoken beforehand; prognosticate; foreshadow; give warning; presage.foretoken
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Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Etymology 2
From (etyl) *.Derived terms
* (l)omen
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Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia omen)- the ghost's appearance was an ill omen
- a rise in imports might be an omen of recovery
- the egg has, during the span of history, represented mystery, magic, medicine, food and omen
- Day broke. He saw three black hens asleep in a tree. He shuddered, horrified at this omen . Then he promised the Holy Virgin three chasubles for the church, and that he would go barefooted from the cemetery at Bertaux to the chapel of Vassonville.
- a sign of ill omen