bodement
Americannoun
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a foreboding or omen; presentiment.
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a prophecy or prediction.
Etymology
Origin of bodement
Example Sentences
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Upon the whole he was not without a bodement that it would be folly to press on.
From The Well-Beloved by Hardy, Thomas
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.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
I am silent: this however is an evil bodement.
From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides
That clinging mist seemed of evil bodement for our expedition.
From The Roof of France by Betham-Edwards, Matilda
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