Forebode
[fɔː'bəʊd]
Definition
(v. t.) To foretell.
(v. t.) To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
(v. i.) To fortell; to presage; to augur.
(n.) Prognostication; presage.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Foretell, predict, presage, portend, augur, betoken, foreshadow, foreshow, prognosticate, prefigure, be ominous of.[2]. Foreknow, be prescient of, have foreknowledge of, have prescience of.
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Definition
v.t. to feel a secret sense of something future esp. of evil.—ns. Forebode′ment feeling of coming evil; Forebod′er; Forebod′ing a boding or perception beforehand; apprehension of coming evil.—adv. Forebod′ingly.
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Examples
- A sudden seizure of a different nature from any thing foreboded by her general state, had carried her off after a short struggle. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Her heart was overflowing with tenderness, but it still foreboded evil. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Selden had retained her hand, and continued to scrutinize her with a strange sense of foreboding. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I exclaimed, seized with hypochondriac foreboding. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- No soul was prophetic enough to have any foreboding as to what might appear on the trial of Joshua Rigg. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It seemed to open with such promise--such foreboding of a most strange tale to be unfolded. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The foreboding of some undiscoverable danger lying hid from us all in the darkness of the future was strong on me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- My mother had a sure foreboding at the second glance, that it was Miss Betsey. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Mamma would appear to have had an indefinable foreboding of what afterwards happened, for she would frequently urge upon me, “Not a little man. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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