Meaning of foretoldest | Babel Free

Definitions

second-person singular simple past indicative of foretell

archaic, form-of, indicative, past, second-person, singular

Examples

“But Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not ſee, as thou foretoldeſt by thy Prophet Eſay […]”

“The opening of the mouth; thou shalt with greater authority be heard speaking, when the sorrows thou foretoldest, and the joys thou promisedst, both come to pass; […]”

“S Gabriel, who foretoldeſt the Birth and Miniſtery of John the Baptiſt.”

“I remember, when plenipotentiaries were ſent to conclude that inglorious peace with Athens, after the victories of Cimon, thou foretoldeſt that if we let the Greeks alone, they would deſtroy themſelves.”

“At sundry times, and in divers manners, thou foretoldest unto the fathers, by the prophets, that thou wouldst send forth into this world a great Deliverer, one mighty to save.”

“Thou thyself, O Lord! in foretelling thy resurrection, foretoldest also the obstinacy of this incredulous race, their ruin and their dispersion.”

“Remember the sadness and bitterness which, by thy own testimony, thou hadst in thy soul, when at the last Supper thou gavest to thy disciples thy own Body and Blood, washedst their feet, and, in sweetly consoling them, foretoldest thy impending Passion.”

“Thou shalt not go to Armagh, for thou foretoldest to Trechem’s sons that with them thy resurrection would be.”

“Why didst thou bid me not to fear, when thou / In Ziph foretoldest that thy Father’s sword / Should never strike me, but upon my brow / Should shine the golden circlet of the Lord?”

“Thy witch’s tricks, poor woman, can do no more than they did two years ago when thou foretoldest the end of the world and made many a wife beg her husband’s pardon for past scoldings without the slightest need.”

“And when Thou foretoldest to him his denial, he did not believe Thee.”

“How his own savagery hath punished him / At last and gracious heaven hath just confirmed / What in our ill plight thou foretoldest him.”

“As thou wast vouchsafed the shining rays of prophecy, thou also wast bound to Jeremias as his friend, and foretoldest of the Word’s self-abasement for our refashioning, O all-lauded Prophet Baruch. […] O divine Ezekiel, as God’s true Prophet, thou foretoldest unto all the Incarnation of the Lord, the Lamb of God, the Artificer, the Son of God, the Eternal made manifest.”

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