Foreboding
[fɔː'bəʊdɪŋ] or [fɔr'bodɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) an unfavorable omen.
(noun.) a feeling of evil to come; 'a steadily escalating sense of foreboding'; 'the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case'.
Checker: Tom--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forebode
(n.) Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.
Checked by Helena
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Prognostication, presage, omen, augury.
Typist: Malcolm
Examples
- 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.
- It's just what I've been foreboding! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- After he had left them they went silently below, each wrapped in gloomy forebodings. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I am quite glad you are at home; for these hurries and forebodings by which I have been surrounded all day long, have made me nervous without reason. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I went about, however, with a heart which was full of forebodings. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- And Dobbin quitted him, full of forebodings. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Dr. Bond, on some other occasion afterward, said that he did not like Franklin's forebodings. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But her present forebodings she feared would experience no similar contradiction. Jane Austen. Emma.
- As I wandered about the plaza lost in my gloomy forebodings Tars Tarkas approached me on his way from the audience chamber. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- While she remained thus, overcome by her forebodings, the old clock indoors whizzed forth twelve strokes. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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