foreshadowとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

The verb is derived from fore- (prefix meaning ‘before with respect to time, earlier’) +‎ shadow (“to shade, cloud, or darken”, verb).

The noun is derived from fore- +‎ shadow (“faint and imperfect representation”, noun), probably modelled after the verb which is attested earlier.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (verb) IPA: /fɔːˈʃædəʊ/, /ˌfɔːˈʃædəʊ/, /fə-/
  • (noun) IPA: /ˈfɔːˌʃædəʊ/
  • 韻: -ædəʊ
• (General American)
  • (verb) IPA: /fɔɹˈʃædoʊ/, /fəɹ-/
  • (noun) IPA: /ˈfɔɹˌʃædoʊ/
• ハイフネーション: fore‧sha‧dow

動詞

foreshadow (third-person singular simple present foreshadows, present participle foreshadowing, simple past and past participle foreshadowed) (transitive)

1. To suggest (someone or something) in advance; to prefigure, to presage. [from 16th c.]
   • 1575, Martin Luther, “The Third Chapter. Verse 17.”, in [Thomas Vautrollier], transl., A Commentarie of M. Doctor Martin Luther upon the Epistle of S. Paule to the Galathians, […], revised edition, [London]: […] Thomas Vautroullier […] for William Norton, published 1588, →OCLC, folio 146, verso:

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

   • a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “An Exposition on the Creed”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume VI, London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1831, →OCLC, page 520:

     [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.

   • 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Four. The Last of the Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 150:

     "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!"

   • 1842, Martin Farquhar Tupper, “Of Neglect”, in Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated (Second Series), London: J[ohn] Hatchard and Son, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page 133:

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

   • 1857 June 28 (date delivered), Charles H[addon] Spurgeon, “[Sermon] 138: Prayer—The Forerunner of Mercy—Ezek[iel] 36:37: A Sermon Delivered on Sabbath Morning, June 28th, 1857, by the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens”, in Spurgeon’s Sermons […], volume III, [United States]: Classic Christian Library, published 1994–2023?, page 535:

     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.

   • 1906, Arthur Dillon, King Arthur Pendragon, London: Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 116:

     I have inveigled Tristan and Iseult / Back into this thy court—to Tristan's death, / And my installing as apparent heir, / As thou foreshadowedst.

     An archaism.

   • 1939, Philonis Alexandrini [i.e., Philo], “Text and Translation”, in Herbert Box, transl., In Flaccum […], London; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 45:

     Thou foreshadowest for us good hopes even for the amendment for what is being left, now that Thou hast already begun to give assent to our prayers, […]

   • 2007, Edwin Mullins, “Palaces and Petrarch”, in Avignon of the Popes: City of Exiles, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Signal Books, published 2017, →ISBN, page 84:

     It all sounds to us remarkably nineteenth-century; Petrarch's romantic sentiments foreshadow with uncanny precision those of Dante Gabriel Rossetti or Alfred de Musset.

   • 2013, Heide Goody, Iain Grant, “The Novel Writing Process”, in How to Write a Collaborative Novel, [Birmingham, West Midlands]: Pigeon Park Press, →ISBN, part 2 (Writing Your Collaborative Novel):

     If there is a significant or surprising event in the story, it must be foreshadowed earlier on. When the event that was foreshadowed occurs, that's the payoff.

2. (rare) Of a person: to have an intuition or premonition about (something); to forebode.
   • 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, “Strong of Purpose”, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC, 2nd book (Birds of a Feather), page 289:

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

Conjugation

派生語

• foreshadowed (adjective)
• foreshadower
• foreshadowing (noun)
• unforeshadowed

名詞

foreshadow (plural foreshadows)

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

   Synonyms: foretouch, foreshadowing; see also Thesaurus:omen

   • 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “The World out of Clothes”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 35:

     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.

   • 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “The Everlasting Yea”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 130:

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

   • 1887, A[lexander] W[illiam] Kinglake, “The Death of Lord Raglan”, in The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress down to the Death of Lord Raglan, volume VIII (From the Opening of Pélissier’s Command to the Death of Lord Raglan), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 280:

     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.

参照

Further reading

• Foreshadow (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia