foreshowとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• foreshew

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /fɔːˈʃəʊ/, /fɔəˈʃəʊ/
• 韻: -əʊ

動詞

foreshow (third-person singular simple present foreshows, present participle foreshowing, simple past foreshowed, past participle foreshown)

1. (transitive, archaic) To show in advance; to foretell, predict.
   • 1810, Walter Scott, “Canto II. The Island.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza XXXI, pages 85–86:

     Amid his senses' giddy wheel, / Did he not desperate impulse feel, / Headlong to plunge himself below, / And meet the worst his fears foreshow?— […]

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 314:

     What could the soothsayer foreshow that we knew not before? The future is written in the past; and if we prophesy, it is with eyes that look behind.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To foreshadow or prefigure.
   • 1841, Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu, The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England:

     But if the rays break forth out of the middle, or dispersed, and its exterior body, or the out parts of it, be covered with clouds, it foreshows great tempests both of wind and rain.

派生語

• foreshower

語源 2

From fore- + show.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈfɔːʃəʊ/, /ˈfɔəʃəʊ/

名詞

foreshow (plural foreshows)

1. (obsolete) A manifestation in advance; a prior indication.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
     , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.139:

     The fore-shew of their inclination whilest they are young is so uncertaine […] that it is very hard, (yea for the wisest) to ground any certaine judgement […].