foretouch

Definitions

A touch made in advance; (by extension) a prelude or foreshadow.

figuratively

Examples

“Is it progress⟳ at all, or is it retrogression, is it light⟳ or darkness, is it civilization or a foretouch of the disrupting force⟳ of intellectual anarchy and moral decay?”

“It was as if something of the Beyond unrolled itself in exquisite promise⟳ and foretouch; as if great gates were open⟳, through which one day - into which this day was transfiguring - they might sail⟳ in to an eternal blessedness.”

“There was a foretouch of death in the thought.”

“A foretouch of future shadows fell on them when they heard of Noel and Gregor MacLean having joined the London Scottish.”

“In the middle distance a tall white skyscraper stood up, a prelude, or a foretouch to a great yellowish black cloud behind it.”

“I felt its foretouch.”

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