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forewarning

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fore·warn  (fôr-wôrn, fr-)
tr.v. fore·warned, fore·warn·ing, fore·warns
To warn in advance.
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Noun1.forewarningforewarning - an early warning about a future event
premonition
warning - a message informing of danger; "a warning that still more bombs could explode"
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The first forewarning of this catastrophe had reached her, on hearing that Mirabel would not return to Monksmoor.
I Say No by Collins, Wilkie View in context
Tom heard the message with a forewarning heart; for he knew all the plan of the fugitives' escape, and the place of their present concealment;--he knew the deadly character of the man he had to deal with, and his despotic power.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context
My one last hope, that I had only felt an ordinary forewarning of danger in the presence of an ordinary enemy, was a hope destroyed for ever.
The Haunted Hotel by Collins, Wilkie View in context
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