forebode
verb (used with object)
to foretell or predict; be an omen of; indicate beforehand; portend.
had foreboded
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past perfectof forebode.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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And so the victim of imagination was delivered from the storm of persecution which he had foreboded would be renewed on the succeeding day.
From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Thomas Cooper
And she went over all the old grounds agin to me, that she had foreboded on; and I went over all the old grounds of soothing agin and agin.
From Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician by Marietta Holley
In the moment of shaking hands, Cherry had foreboded enough to set her pulses throbbing so violently as to deafen her ears.
From The Pillars of the House, V1 by Charlotte Mary Yonge
The scene before me was the unpleasing reverse of all that my fancy, while coming hither, had foreboded.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
Many of the men, too, had foreboded the misfortune; and the previous night, while lying in the church of St. Pecaque, had been disturbed by frequent groanings which kept them from sleeping.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury
