betokening
present participle ofbetoken
单词 | betokening |
释义 | betokening present participle ofbetoken betoken verb[T] old useuk/bɪˈtəʊ.kən/us/bɪˈtoʊ.kən/tomeansomething or be asignof something Synonyms bodeformal foreshadowformal portendformal presageformal Typifying, illustrating and exemplifying
Examplesofbetokeningbetokening In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Although it is impossible to know for cer tain what constituted the contemporary understandings of these terms, it is unlikely that they were understood asbetokeningsocial contract. From theCambridge English Corpus Bradley considers the reasons (a), (b), and (c) to be good reasons to assume the deal was significant (in his sense ofbetokeningpurpose). From theCambridge English Corpus The key point is that grants will be new money for mental illness,betokeningthe importance that we attach to that area. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 That thing was done for abetokening, and it passed away. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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