Meaning of 'foretell' in Xhosa is: vutivi

foretell: vutivi

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ekhompyutheni, ukubala, lokubhengeza, aprofete, bala, ingqalelo, baqikelele, uprofete, yaqikelelwa, nobuza, zingumqondiso, songela.

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Verb(1) foreshadow or presage(2) make a prediction about; tell in advance(3) indicate, as with a sign or an omen(4) make a prediction about(5) tell in advance(6) indicate by signs(7) predict(8) warn

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(1) The true prophet does not foretell an inevitable future, but warns of likely consequences should a present course of action continue.(2) Though it wrestles with images, impressions, hopes and fears about the future, the technique does not claim to foretell the future.(3) Sometimes, your ability to foretell the future is uncanny.(4) In other words, they actually believe that children use cardboard toys to cast spells and foretell the future.(5) Who would have been brave enough to foretell football's future 50 years ago?(6) In pagan times poets were thought to be gifted with second sight, able in a trance or frenzy to foretell future events.(7) History hangs on thousands of fragile threads, and speculating on the unhappened past is almost as great a folly as trying to foretell the future.(8) The prophecies of Nostradamus are said to foretell events centuries in his future.(9) I say this because I don't know of any other religion that has been able to foretell the future through prophets.(10) Jesus Christ, I say, can foresee and foretell the future.(11) A science which teaches to judge of the effects and influences of the stars, and to foretell future events, by their situation and different aspects.(12) My follow up to this story was that Joe could foretell his future back then.(13) Counterargument to this belief is that you absolutely have no way to know what will happen if you talk to someone new - this would be foretelling the future.(14) For water-witching or foretelling the future, the diviner was often an integral, if under-appreciated member of the country village.(15) Often when a great person dies, a symbolic event which foretells the death of that person, occurs.(16) Someone has to become the foreteller of the future, and they start leading people toward it.