presage
noun
a presentiment or foreboding.
presager
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a word derived from
presage.
Example Sentences
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A filthy bird “Becoming;—constant presager of woe; “An owl inactive; omen dire to man.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
And one conspirator leaped up Amid the clash of tinkling spoons And poured into a protose cup His helping of stewed prunes; And, blood-red presager of doom, Half a tomato hissed across the room.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919 by Various
It was not long before the press-agents of the dumb presager found a romancer willing to undertake the task that Defoe neglected.
From The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood by George Frisbie Whicher
