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Betoken v. t. (past & past part. betokened; pres. part. betokening)

To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. "A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow... Betokening peace from God, and covenant new."

To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens a storm.

Synonyms: To presage; portend; indicate; mark; note.

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Etymology of 'Betoken'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Betoken" Quotes from Famous Books

... into this district. Whether those whom I had encountered at Deb's hut were of that band whom I had met with in the cavern, was merely a topic of conjecture. There might be a half-score of troops, equally numerous, spread over the wilderness, and the signal I had just heard might betoken the approach of one of these. Yet by what means they should gain this nook, and what prey they expected to discover, were ...

— Edgar Huntley • Charles Brockden Brown

... peculiarities. They, if ever any were, are pieces for effect, of great boldness of plot, still more fantastic than romantic; even though Gozzi was the first among the comic poets of Italy to show any true feeling for honour and love. The execution does not betoken either care or skill, but is sketchily dashed off. With all his whimsical boldness he is still quite a popular writer; the principal motives are detailed with the most unambiguous perspicuity, all the touches are coarse and vigorous: he says, he knows well that his ...

— Lectures on Dramatic Art - and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel trans John Black

... strange impersonality betoken? Why are these peoples so different from us in this most fundamental of considerations to any people, the consideration of themselves? The answer leads ...

— The Soul of the Far East • Percival Lowell

... that the love match between Miriam and her husband had not turned out in all respects well, and I fear that he derived from the thought a certain feeling of consolation. "He" was spoken about in a manner that did not betoken unfailing love and perfect confidence. Perhaps Miriam was at this moment thinking that she might have done better with her youth and her money! She was thinking of nothing of the kind. Her mind was one that dwelt on the present, not on the past. She was unhappy about her furniture, unhappy ...

— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope

... this saying does not import that green leaves do make summer, but that they betoken summer; so are they the sign and not the cause ...

— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) • Augustus de Morgan

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