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n. - An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.

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  • A tall light foretokened the death of a man, a lesser one for a woman, and a small one for a child.
  • The first foretoken evidence of BPH is the frequency of requisite to urinate.
  • Vienna lectures of 1810 foretoken Ruskin's philippics against railways and factories.
  • The move is a distressing foretoken to the significant cuts that will strike across the UK?
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