Word Meanings - ABODEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A foreboding; an omen. "Abodements must not now affright us." Shak.

Related words: (words related to ABODEMENT)

• FOREBODINGLY
  In a foreboding manner.
• AFFRIGHTER
  One who frightens.
• AFFRIGHTFUL
  Terrifying; frightful. -- Af*fright"ful*ly, adv. Bugbears or affrightful apparitions. Cudworth.
• AFFRIGHTEDLY
  With fright. Drayton.
• AFFRIGHTEN
  To frighten. "Fit tales . . . to affrighten babes." Southey.
• AFFRIGHTMENT
  Affright; the state of being frightened; sudden fear or alarm. Passionate words or blows . . . fill the child's mind with terror and affrightment. Locke.
• FOREBODEMENT
  The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.
• FOREBODER
  One who forebodes.
• FOREBODING
  Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.
• FOREBODE
  1. To foretell. 2. To be prescient of ; to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. His heart forebodes a mystery. Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation,
• AFFRIGHT
  To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm. Dreams affright our souls. Shak. A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Milton. Syn. -- To terrify; frighten; alarm; dismay; appall; scare; startle; daunt;
• SELF-AFFRIGHTED
  Frightened at or by one's self. Shak.