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Definition of Betokening
1. betoken [v] - See also: betoken
Lexicographical Neighbors of Betokening
Literary usage of Betokening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1910)
"It is big with gigantic commercial possibilities, betokening a revolution in our
growing international trade, ..."
2. An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great by William Kelly (1851)
"... Precipitate Return—Description of the Sioux—Their Costume— Mode of betokening
Friendship—Exhibit our Trading Wares-interchange of Presents—They leave, ..."
3. Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1841)
"... and our own wretched condition in bad roads, puny horses, ragged harness, and
incompetent postillions, all betokening his holiness' dominion. ..."
4. The Quarterly Register of Current History by Alfred S Johnson (1893)
"He brought in an amazing array of evidence betokening the distribution of 1300000
francs in bribes among his colleagues. Hardly any leader's name escaped ..."
5. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1859)
"According to my opinion, the electrical fire was then drawing off, as by points,
from the cloud ; the largeness of the flame betokening the great quantity ..."
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