Definition of "foretokening" []

• Indication in advance. (noun)
• Present participle of foretoken. (verb)

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• "The sense, the inward feeling, in the soul of each believer, of its exceeding 'desirableness' -- the experience, that he 'needs' something, joined with the strong foretokening, that the redemption and the graces propounded to us in Christ are 'what' he needs -- this I hold to be the true foundation of the spiritual edifice."
• "To add to the discomfort of all -- not excepting Boone himself -- the sun, which had thus far shone out warm and brilliant, began to grow more and more dim, as a thick haze spread through the atmosphere overhead, foretokening an approaching storm -- an event which might prove entirely disastrous to their hopes, by obliterating all vestiges of the pursued."
• "Island's red shores with gleams of gold foretokening a fine day after all."