Already revealed, displayed, or indicated beforehand; made visible or known in advance.
Past participle of 'foreshow,' the -en ending marks past participle form from Old English traditions. This construction preserves archaic grammar where many verbs used -en instead of -ed for past tense.
English once had dozens of verbs that formed past participles with -en (like 'shown,' 'spoken,' 'broken'), and foreshown is a time capsule showing how this system worked—today most verbs have abandoned -en for regular -ed, but a few holdouts remain frozen in older compound words.
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