foreshower

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English

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Etymology

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From foreshow +‎ -er.

Noun

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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.”

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