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Word Meanings - PORTENSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of foreshowing; foreboding. Sir T. Browne.

Related words: (words related to PORTENSION)

  • FOREBODINGLY
    In a foreboding manner.
  • FOREBODEMENT
    The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.
  • FOREBODER
    One who forebodes.
  • FOREBODING
    Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.
  • FORESHOW
    To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell. Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart. Shak. Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose, Whose purple blush the day foreshows. Denham.
  • 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,
  • FORESHOWER
    One who predicts.

 

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