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foretaste

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1. foretaste - Noun

2. foretaste - Verb

Meaning

A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.

To taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate.

To taste before another.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection. Arthur Schopenhauer

School is a foretaste of life. Georg Brandes

How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it. Cormac McCarthy

The beauty of the sacred is a symbol or a foretaste of, and sometimes a means for, the joy that God alone procures. Frithjof Schuon

They looked forward to that moment with joy, but without haste, not pining for it, but seeming to have a foretaste of it in their hearts, of which they talked to one another. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If chocolate is a foretaste of heaven, what does it mean that chocolate is freely available to all? David W Augsburger

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