omen

Some view is as an omen of dread, of blood, of war, or of victory.

They may even have a good argument, but their very existence is about as ill an omen as it gets.

Again he won his stake, an omen for the day, and was exultant.

If they remain unmoved on the left, or adhere to the right, then it is an omen that the absent loved one will remain faithful.

If dark and dingy, the omen was bad, and they were ordered to sit still.

But in the meantime its disappearance troubled me like an omen.

René took the incident as an omen, and turned his ode into a prophecy which he delivered to his master as the utterance of God.