foreshower

English

Etymology

From foreshow +‎ -er.

Noun

foreshower (plural foreshowers)

1. (archaic) One who, or that which, foreshows; a prophet or omen.
   • 1842 February, Frances Elizabeth Davis, “Memories of Gibraltar, No. IX: The Merchant’s Daughter”, in The Metropolitan Magazine, volume 33, number 130, page 283:

     “Ay, ay, a dream, quotha! dreams are but the foreshowers of the future, my mistress.”

Further reading

• “foreshower”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.