bodement

[bohd-muhnt]

noun

1. a foreboding or omen; presentiment.

2. a prophecy or prediction.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bodement¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; bode ¹ + -ment

Example Sentences

I am silent: this however is an evil bodement.

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List, then, as I shall speak: and grant the dreams Whose two-fold apparition I to-night Have seen, if good their bodement, be fulfilled: If hostile, turn their influence on my foes.

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That clinging mist seemed of evil bodement for our expedition.

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Upon the whole he was not without a bodement that it would be folly to press on.

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I wish indeed for the glad sympathy of my people, for I think that our Saviour turning water into wine at the wedding, was an example set that we should rejoice and be merry at the fulfilment of one of the great obligations imposed on us as social creatures; and I have ever regarded the unhonoured treatment of a marriage occasion as a thing of evil bodement, betokening heavy hearts and light purses to the lot of the bride and bridegroom. 

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Related Words

• harbinger 
• indication 
• portent 
• premonition