The word "betoken" is a perfectly acceptable word in written English.
You can use it to mean "to indicate or suggest something". Here is an example sentence: The dark clouds in the sky betoken a coming storm.
Indeed, the fact that the court declared itself open to establishing a more narrowly defined right to suicide in the future is perhaps just as remarkable as its reluctance to establish a broad one immediately.Not only does the suicide decision betoken less restraint than is commonly argued; in its other recent rulings, the court showed no obvious restraint at all.
Since Kepler knew Euclid's proof that there can be five and only five such mathematical objects made up of congruent faces, he decided that such self-sufficiency must betoken a perfect idea.
It's another Hal Wilner production too, which means textural elegance and arpeggiated guitars in ambiguous keys, where minor and major shifts betoken the glamour of being her as much as signal mood.
His clever camera movements (he's also the cinematographer, pseudonymously credited as "Peter Andrews") and shrewd edits betoken a director right on top of his game.
The fragments of these poets betoken grandeur in "the high Roman fashion," but they also have a certain ruggedness.
Such statements betoken a realism that some depictions of de Blasio, like the Post's "Che de Blasio" tag, willfully ignore.
To us, they betokened intellect.
That she nonetheless remains Labour's best chance illustrates both her personal appeal and the strength of her analysis.But it also betokens the lack of more experienced figures capable of hauling the wheezy party out of its comfort zone.
A fall of this magnitude usually betokens a deep downturn, and under Mr Taylor's proposal would have resulted in a 50 basis point fall in interest rates.
Broadcasters dispensed with advertising and game shows; the windmills stopped turning, their sails set slightly off-kilter in a way that has betokened grief for centuries.
All-round excellence surely betokens quality, even if other films may be judged to be superior in the individual categories".The Aviator" certainly has the right subject the father of modern aviation and the father, with his 1930 film "Hell's Angels", of course, of modern action movies.
