Word: betokens
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...undergraduates of Harvard College are making another appeal to the governing bodies for the abolition of compulsory attendance upon prayers. Their petition presents the argument for the change very forcibly, pointing out that voluntary attendance would necessarily betoken genuine interest in the religious exercises, while the present sense of compulsion produces indifference, if not hostility, to the observance. They also urge with force that such compulsion of undergraduates is inconsistent with the entire freedom conceded to students in the scientific school and in all other departments of the university, while the abolition of compulsory attendance upon Sunday services at church...
...That voluntary attendance upon prayers would necessarily betoken genuine interest in the religious exercises...
...crop of extraordinary translations from respectable old classical authors, as gleaned from our exchanges, says the Collegian, is unusually prolific this year. Some of them are startling in their originality and ingenuity, others are completely bewildering in the wild luxuriance of imagination which they betoken on the part of the translator. For instance, Virgil is made to say in "Impositi rogis juvenes ante ora parentum," "And the boys were imposed upon by the rogues in the very teeth of their parents." Another from the same source, "Hunc Polydorum auri," "A hunk of gold belonging to Polydorus." Horace fares little better...
...character which, owing to the circumstances we have already touched upon, is almost always accompanied by corresponding breadth; but it is not unlikely - judging from experience - that a style of conversation remarkable rather for its ingenious oaths and delicate doubles ententes than for its "yea and nay" simplicity, will betoken a decided, though perhaps gradual, change in his inner life...
...take for true worth what mere looks may betoken...