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Betoken  v. t.  (past & past part. betokened; pres. part. betokening)  
1.
To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. "A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow... Betokening peace from God, and covenant new."
2.
To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens a storm.
Synonyms: To presage; portend; indicate; mark; note.





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"Betoken" Quotes from Famous Books



... real name is said to have been Glaucis. Glaucothea was the name of a sea-nymph. The change of the father's name Tromes ('Trembler') to Atrometus ('Dauntless') would also betoken a rise ...
— The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 • Demosthenes
... bosom, which seemed sent from heaven to heal her wounds, lies panting in the grasp of fierce disease. She has sent for the king, and together they look upon the suffering one. Full well he knows, that miserable man, what mean those moans and piteous signs of distress, and what they betoken. He gazes on the wan, anguished features of his wife as she bends over her child; his thoughts revert hurriedly to her surpassing beauty when first he saw her—a vision of the murdered Uriah flits before him—the three victims of his guilt and ...
— Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters - Volume 3 • Various
... to the personal taste or industry of the friend who sends are particularly complimentary. A piece of embroidery, a painting, a water-color, are most flattering gifts, as they betoken a ...
— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
... or tongue of bird or brute, unbroken Silence may brood upon the lifeless plain, Nor any sign, far off or near, betoken Man in ...
— An Anthology of Australian Verse • Bertram Stevens
... view of nature is open to many objections, even if it were only a question of inorganised matter. Simple physics already betoken the insufficiency of a purely mechanic conception. The stream of phenomena flows in an irreversible direction and obeys a determined rhythm. "If I wish to prepare myself a glass of sugar and water, ...
— A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson • Edouard le Roy


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