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
Thus the imagination broods over and explores the shows and secrets, presageful warnings and alluring 38 Golden Ass, Taylor's trans., p.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
She came in this evening with a look presageful of news indeed.
From Demos by George Gissing
From your poor Katherine's chamber, where she droops In sad presageful thoughts, and sighs, and weeps, And seems to pray by turns.
From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb
Johnson had not that fine sensitiveness to the political atmosphere which made Burke presageful of coming tempest, but both of them felt that there was something dangerous in this man.
From Among My Books First Series by James Russell Lowell
