foreshadow

verb

1. (transitive)To suggest (someone or something) in advance; to prefigure, to presage.

   “[T]he ceremonies commaunded in the lawe, did foreſhadowe Chriſt.”

   “[T]hat the excellency and efficacy of this [Jesus's] death and passion might appear, it was by manifold types foreshadowed, and in divers prophecies foretold.”

   “"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said [Ebenezer] Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!"”

   “A good man's praise foreshadoweth God's, and in His smile is heaven: […]”

   “Even as the cloud foreshadoweth rain, so prayer foreshadoweth the blessing; even as the green blade is the beginning of the harvest, so is prayer the prophecy of the blessing that is about to come.”

2. (rare, transitive)Of a person: to have an intuition or premonition about (something); to forebode.

   “Another consequence that he had never foreshadowed, was the implication of an innocent man in his supposed murder.”

noun

1. (transitive)A suggestion of something in advance; a harbinger, a portent.

   “At present it is only in local glimpses, and by significant fragments, picked often at wide-enough intervals from the original Volume, and carefully collated, that we can hope to impart some outline or foreshadow of this Doctrine.”

   “Fore-shadows, call them rather fore-splendours, of that Truth, and Beginning of Truths, fell mysteriously over my soul.”

   “The foreshadow of death was then falling on the mind of the Chief [FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan], and he did not, I believe, speak again.”