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Another word for presage

Noun

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

    2. Idioms:
    See also:

    warn

    foresight

Another word for presage

Verb

  1. To give an indication of something in advance

    2. See also:

    show

    foresight

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Another word for presage

Verb
    2. See also:

    foretell

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Sentence Examples

  • Frequent fainting fits gave presage of a speedy end, and on the 8th of April 1813 he had a final interview with his friends B.

  • The condition of affairs on the continent seemed to French enthusiasts to presage an attack by the other Powers on France.

  • Against Russia he was less fortunate, and the first encounter between Turkey and her future northern rival gave presage of disaster to come.

  • Adamson (Perth, 1638) are the lines "For what we do presage is riot in grosse, For we are brethren of the Rosie Crosse; We have the Mason Word and second sight, Things for to come we can fortell aright."

  • The loose and barren rule of the Confederation seemed to conservative minds such as Hamilton's to presage, in its strengthening of individualism, a fatal looseness of social restraints, and led him on to a dread of democracy that he never overcame.

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