foreshadow sth., to
Marianne Uehlin... - Wed, 03/02/2016 - 10:30
English Description:
Etymology online:
"indicate beforehand," 1570s, figurative, from fore- + shadow (v.); the notion seems to be a shadow thrown before an advancing material object as an image of something suggestive of what is to come. Related: Foreshadowed; foreshadowing. As a noun from 1831. Old English had forescywa "shadow," forescywung "overshadowing."
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