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foreshadowing

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fore·shad·ow  (fôr-shd, fr-)
tr.v. fore·shad·owed, fore·shad·ow·ing, fore·shad·ows
To present an indication or a suggestion of beforehand; presage.
fore·shadow·er n.
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Noun1.foreshadowing - the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
adumbration, prefiguration
prediction, anticipation, prevision - the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
Adj.1.foreshadowing - indistinctly prophetic
adumbrative, prefigurative
prophetic, prophetical - foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention; "prophetic writings"; "prophetic powers"; "words that proved prophetic"


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There is, however, among these notes the following interesting paragraph, written in 1840 and clearly foreshadowing The Great Stone Face:
The Great Carbuncle by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Lop-Ear was plainly in a funk, and yet his conduct in remaining by me, in spite of his fear, I take as a foreshadowing of the altruism and comradeship that have helped make man the mightiest of the animals.
Before Adam by London, Jack View in context
Indeed, in some sort, they were not grieved at this event, at least as a portent; for they regarded it, not as a foreshadowing of evil in the future, but as the fulfilment of an evil already presaged.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
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