"foretoken" meaning in English

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        "2": "voorteken"
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      "expansion": "Dutch voorteken",
      "name": "cog"
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      },
      "expansion": "German Low German Vörteken",
      "name": "cog"
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        "1": "de",
        "2": "Vorzeichen"
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          "ref": "1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, Book II, ch. 10",
          "text": "Therefore know you Gentlemen (to whom from my harte I wish that it may not proue ominous foretoke[n] of misfortune to haue mette with such a miser as I am) that whatsoeuer my sonne (ô God, that trueth binds me to reproch him with the name of my sonne) hath said, is true.",
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        "A prognostic; a premonitory sign; warning or presentiment."
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          "premonitory",
          "premonitory"
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          "sign",
          "sign"
        ],
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          "warning",
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          "presentiment",
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          "code": "bg",
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          "roman": "predznamenovanie",
          "sense": "a premonitory sign; warning or presentiment",
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          ],
          "word": "предзнаменование"
        }
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      "form": "foretokening",
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      "form": "foretokened",
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        "(transitive) To betoken beforehand; prognosticate; foreshadow; give warning of; presage."
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        "To betoken beforehand; prognosticate; foreshadow; give warning of; presage."
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