foreshadow

Etymology

From fore- + shadow.

verb

  1. (transitive) To presage, or suggest something in advance.
    It all sounds to us remarkably nineteenth-century; Petrarch's romantic sentiments foreshadow with uncanny precision those of Dante Gabriel Rossetti or Alfred de Musset. 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 84

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