foretelling

How To Use foretelling In A Sentence

• Counterargument to this belief is that you absolutely have no way to know what will happen if you talk to someone new - this would be foretelling the future.
• Though the Old Testament prophets as agents of revelation are popularly conceived as being principally men involved in foretelling, that is, predicting future events, in reality the emphasis of their activity was involved in forthtelling. Crosswalk.com - Home
• The "bad" bonnet must sink the large souled Grecian to a cinder-wench, make the Frenchwoman a trapes from the Palais Royal, our fair astronomer a gipsy of Greenwich Park, and the fate-foretelling sybil Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841
• I like to think of myself as a Product Evangelist, dreaming up wonderful new product features, foretelling the future of mobile telecoms, and preaching the glory that is our system to the assembled masses.
• Consequently a sacrament is a sign that is both a reminder of the past, i.e. the passion of Christ; and an indication of that which is effected in us by Christ's passion, i.e. grace; and a prognostic, that is, a foretelling of future glory. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
• IC, I know you explained the difference between "foretelling" and "forthtelling", and maybe I'm just a little dense, but I looked up the word and it's usage and it seems that although it could be used both ways, the usage of the word varies depending on the situation and context. Pulpit Pimps
• These high explosions and incendiaries are like the falling stars and blazing comets - noted of old as foretelling great changes in the affairs of man.
• That stroke is to remind us," said Colum-cille, "that it is fitter for us to be inside Saint Patrick's church, praying as Saint Patrick taught us to pray, than to be foretelling what he will do for us on the Day of Judgment. St Patrick's Day
• Christ, of whom not only Cyrus, who was God's servant in foretelling it, was a type. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
• One shilling for simple magic such as foretelling the fate of common black people. Allan and the Holy Flower