Foreshowing

vbl. sb. [f. prec. vb. + -ING¹.] The action of the vb. FORESHOW.

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a. 1050. Liber Scintill., vi. (1889), 28. Atihtincge his mid eallum ȝeþances bigenge on godes foresceawunge [contemplatione] ȝefæstnað.

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a. 1300. Cursor M., 5745 (Cott.).

	And þis was a fore-sceuing scene
	O moder bath and maiden clene.

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1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., I. 56 b. When the vnbeleuers to geue away the gouernement of the worlde from God vnto Planets, do fayne y^t their felicitie or misery doth hang on y^e decrees and foreshewinges of the starres, and not on the wil of God, so commeth it to passe that their feare is withdrawen away from that onely one, whom they ought to haue regarded, vnto the starres and comets.

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1609. Bible (Douay), Proph. Bks., Comm. Al the old Testament is a general prophecie, and forshewing of the New.

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1846. Trench, Mirac., xv. (1862), 261. Many, as has been already noticed, found in these healing influences of the pool of Bethesda a foreshowing of future benefits, above all, of the benefit of baptism.

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