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Meanings of betoken in English

Portuguese
prognosticar
Catalan
augurar
Spanish
predecir

Indicate by signs.

      prognosticar
      Portuguese
      sugerir
      Catalan
      indicar
      Spanish
      indicar

      Be a signal for or a symptom of.

            sugerir
            Usage of betoken in English
            1
            Aloes, without a flower, betoken long life: in flower, betoken a legacy.
            Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3
            2
            His countenance expresses courage, and his well-set jaws betoken firmness and resolution.
            The Young Voyageurs: Boy Hunters in the North
            3
            And the simultaneous disappearance of Quast and the cats-whatdid that betoken?
            Simon the Jester
            4
            This plea for wings does not necessarily betoken 'a desire to depart.'
            The Threshold Grace: Meditations in the Psalms
            5
            They betoken a new humility in Western Christianity born of experience.
            Christianity: the first three thousand years
            6
            Simple physics already betoken the insufficiency of a purely mechanic conception.
            A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson
            7
            The duller countenances of the British population betoken a better scheme of life.
            A Book of Exposition
            8
            Her coming seemed to betoken the return of the day of small things.
            Chapters of Opera / Being historical and critical observations a...
            9
            I presume these betoken substantial silver, though it may be of the thinnest.
            Waverley Novels — Volume 12
            10
            That doth but betoken that I will hereafter drink so much the more.
            Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3
            11
            His dejected bearing did not betoken the conqueror he undoubtedly was.
            The Shadow of the East
            12
            I hear voices, which probably betoken the departure of Monsieur Miste.
            Dross
            13
            These batches of stocks and bonds betoken as much more again.
            Great Fortunes from Railroads
            14
            They were standing immovable, and their attitude did not betoken hostility.
            Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main
            15
            Certainly, if they both betoken equal power, one betokens greater mercy.
            Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) / From the Com...
            16
            There were none of the heavy blue veins across the back that betoken age.
            The Tree of Appomattox
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