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.