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foreboding
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foreboding
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Foreboding
(gcide) | Forebode \Fore*bode"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foreboded; p. pr. &
vb. n. Foreboding.] [AS. forebodian; fore + bodian to
announce. See Bode v. t.]
1. To foretell.
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2. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an
inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to
happen; to augur despondingly.
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His heart forebodes a mystery. --Tennyson.
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Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars
and desolation, as the certain consequence of
C[ae]sar's death. --Middleton.
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I have a sort of foreboding about him. --H. James.
Syn: To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage;
portend; betoken.
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Foreboding
(gcide) | Foreboding \Fore*bod"ing\, n.
Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.
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foreboding
(wn) | foreboding
adj 1: ominously prophetic [syn: fateful, foreboding(a),
portentous]
n 1: a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of
foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge
would dismiss the case" [syn: foreboding, premonition,
presentiment, boding]
2: an unfavorable omen |
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