presage
a presentiment or foreboding.
something that portends or foreshadows a future event; an omen, prognostic, or warning indication.
prophetic significance; augury.
foresight; prescience.
Archaic. a forecast or prediction.
to have a presentiment of.
to portend, foreshow, or foreshadow: The incidents may presage war.
to forecast; predict.
to make a prediction.
Archaic. to have a presentiment.
Origin of presage
1Other words for presage
1 | foreshadowing, indication, premonition |
2 | portent, sign, token |
Other words from presage
- pres·age·ful, adjective
- pres·age·ful·ly, adverb
- pres·ag·er, noun
- un·pres·aged, adjective
- un·pres·ag·ing, adjective
Words Nearby presage
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How to use presage in a sentence
It strikes me as a presage of the challenges we’ll increasingly face to survive the climate crisis while we work to solve it.
These Women Are Transforming What Climate Leadership Looks Like. Here's What They Learned From the Pandemic | Elijah Wolfson | April 20, 2021 | TimeFrom quotes Clinton a lot, and he credits Clinton with saying that an intellectual resurgence has to presage political power.
But I recall nothing in Possession, Angels & Insects, Babel Tower, or her other books that seems to presage this one.
Must Reads: Wild Abandon, Ramona Ausubel, A.S. Byatt | Nicholas Mancusi, Jennifer Miller, Allen Barra | March 6, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThere were so many unmistakable signs to presage what was coming that I knew a cannibal feast was about to take place.
The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont | Louis de RougemontThe song is founded upon the story of the aged couple of whom I spoke, and is regarded as a contribution of good presage.
A Fantasy of Far Japan | Baron Kencho Suyematsu
Only for a moment could any presage of personal fear cloud the sweet serenity of the Maid's nature.
A Heroine of France | Evelyn Everett-GreenOminous word at such a moment, but the presage of something darker and more ominous still.
Tony Butler | Charles James LeverThe most encouraging time for them was from the year 1874 to 1875, when all seemed to presage better days for them.
British Dictionary definitions for presage
an intimation or warning of something about to happen; portent; omen
a sense of what is about to happen; foreboding
archaic a forecast or prediction
(tr) to have a presentiment of
(tr) to give a forewarning of; portend
(intr) to make a prediction
Origin of presage
1Derived forms of presage
- presageful, adjective
- presagefully, adverb
- presager, noun
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