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Definition of forewarning : of Forewarn

Synonyms:

premonition, foresight, presentiment, boding, gathering clouds, thundercloud, storm clouds

alerting, cautioning, advising, admonishing, enjoining, warning, exhorting

harassment, hint, bluster, admonition, intimidation, threat, monition

bullying, harassing, hinting, threatening, intimidating, looming, scaring, tormenting, scary, bulldozing, browbeating, foreboding, frightening

herald, foretaste, pre-indication, portent, foretoken, caution, presage, omen, sign, symptom, warning signal, writing on the wall, harbinger, messenger, indication, augury, premonitory sign

Usage examples:

• Lamour's Disease is a disease not yet understood- a disease whose termination is believed to be fatal- a strange disease which seems to render radiant and beautiful the features of the patient, brightening them with the forewarning of impending death and the splendid resurrection of immortality." - "The Tracer of Lost Persons", Robert W. Chambers.
• I take the universal wide- spread greed of gain to be one of the worst signs of the times,- the forewarning of some great upheaval and disaster, the effects of which no human mind can calculate. - "Thelma", Marie Corelli.
• The little one, with a forewarning of the attack, which it dreads, falls on his knees, or clings closely to any thing near him. - "The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease.", Thomas Bull, M.D..