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Preordained vs Foreshadowed - What's the difference?

preordained | foreshadowed |

As verbs the difference between preordained and foreshadowed

is that preordained is (preordain) while foreshadowed is (foreshadow).

As an adjective preordained

is determined in advance; predestined.

preordained

English

Verb

(head)
  • (preordain)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • determined in advance; predestined

    • foreshadowed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (foreshadow)

    • foreshadow

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To presage, or suggest something in advance.
  • * 2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge 2008, p. 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.