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Another word for omen

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n.

portent, augury, indication; see sign 1.

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Another word for omen

noun

A phenomenon that serves as a sign or warning of some future good or evil:

augury, forerunner, foretoken, portent, prefigurement, presage, prognostic, prognostication, sign. Idiom: writing (or handwriting) on the wall. See foresight, warn

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It's a bad omen of things to come.
Inviolate, from "health, well-being," or from "good-omen," "augury."
During his confinement by Tiberius a like omen had been interpreted as portending his speedy release, with the warning that should he behold the same sight again he would die within five days.
By the powers of the Quadruple Alliance this event was regarded as of the most sinister omen, and the question was even raised of a fresh armed intervention in France under the terms of the secret treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
(v.) In other cases the tie that binds the subject of divination with the omen-giving object is sympathy.

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