presage
noun
a presentiment or foreboding.
presageful
-
a word derived from
presage.
Example Sentences
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It swims around his voice, dislocated and presageful; the opening synth riff sounds as if it's falling apart as it plays.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 7, 2013
Parents, it is true, are in general great observers of infantine occurrences; and very apt to be presageful of wonderful results expected from trivial causes.
From The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 by James Harrison
Her thoughts wandered toward the future, that terra incognita which Mr. Lindsay's vague words—"There are trials ahead of you"—had peopled with dread yet intangible phantoms, whose spectral shadows solemnly presageful, hovered over even the present.
From Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
She was a free, happy woman, who, in presageful, blissful trepidation, smiled at the future, and said to each minute, "Stay, stay, for thou art so beautiful!"
From Henry VIII and His Court by Henry Niles Pierce
Ah, what a long, low, presageful moan that was, which broke from foaming lips, on yonder strand!”
From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. Evans Wilson
