Object

• approach: I notice with pleasure that Schmoller himself has lately expressed some opinions which betoken an approach to the standpoint I have been defending.

• desire: Adriana rejoined that this betokens a desire for a better lifestyle.

• danger: But when it dominates over the minds and hearts of men, it betokens danger.

• mind: Such an application betokened an extravagant mind, but there was in it a certain dignity, a singularity, which attracted me.

Modifying Another Word

• not: Verdict: Huge white paw prints on the ground do not betoken the menace that might be expected.

• rather: Coming from such a man, it betokens rather his impatience at being met by what may have seemed to him an enigmatical subtlety.