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Meanings of betoken in English
Usage of betoken in English
1
Aloes, without a flower, betoken long life: in flower, betoken a legacy.
2
His countenance expresses courage, and his well-set jaws betoken firmness and resolution.
3
And the simultaneous disappearance of Quast and the cats-whatdid that betoken?
4
This plea for wings does not necessarily betoken 'a desire to depart.'
5
They betoken a new humility in Western Christianity born of experience.
6
Simple physics already betoken the insufficiency of a purely mechanic conception.
7
The duller countenances of the British population betoken a better scheme of life.
8
Her coming seemed to betoken the return of the day of small things.
9
I presume these betoken substantial silver, though it may be of the thinnest.
10
That doth but betoken that I will hereafter drink so much the more.
11
His dejected bearing did not betoken the conqueror he undoubtedly was.
12
I hear voices, which probably betoken the departure of Monsieur Miste.
13
These batches of stocks and bonds betoken as much more again.
14
They were standing immovable, and their attitude did not betoken hostility.
15
Certainly, if they both betoken equal power, one betokens greater mercy.
16
There were none of the heavy blue veins across the back that betoken age.
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Translations for betoken
Portuguese
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Betoken across language varieties
United Kingdom
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