English-Italian translation for "to foretell"
"to foretell" Italian translation
to foretell {verb}
to foretell [foretold|foretold] {vb} (also: to predict, to usher in, to augur, to promise)
In a certain way it is a foretelling of the Passion of Christ.
Here it should be noted that, while all the other promises made in the Upper Room foretold the coming of the Holy Spirit after Christ's departure, the one contained in the text of John 16:7f.
to foretell [foretold|foretold] {vb} (also: to predict, to usher in, to augur, to promise)
to foretell [foretold|foretold] {vb} (also: to predict, to forespeak, to foreshow)
And myth says that he had an audience with the oracle, and it foretold his destiny of greatness.
On Golgotha, Jesus through the Cross definitively confirmed that he was the "sign of contradiction" foretold by Simeon.
What is foretold in the womb
Synonyms
Synonyms (English) for "foretell":
© Princeton Universitypredict · prognosticate · call · forebode · anticipate · promise · announce · annunciate · harbinger · herald
Usage examples
Usage examples for "to foretell" in Italian
It is a question of finding the best possible way to alleviate the effects of what I believe to be, if you pardon the expression, the chronicle of a death foretold.
Nevertheless, what happened in Melilla on Monday - when a 20, 000 cubic metre reservoir burst its banks - was the chronicle of a tragedy foretold.
Mr President, " Chronicle of a Death Foretold " was the title of a novel by García Márquez, that has now become a sad reality in the birthplace of the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.
Both in Isaiah and in the whole of the Old Testament the personality of the Holy Spirit is completely hidden: in the revelation of the one God, as also in the foretelling of the future Messiah.
Similar words
forerunner · foresail · foreshore · foresight · forest · forestal · forestalling · forester · forestry · forests · foretell · foretelling · forethought · forever · forewoman · foreword · forfeit · forfeitable · forfeiture · forge · forgeable
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