Portent
['pɔːtent;-t(ə)nt] or ['pɔrtɛnt]
Definition
(n.) That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign.
Checker: Velma
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Omen (of ill), presage, prognostic, augury, sign, warning.
Typist: Winfred
Examples
- Then the plane was overhead, its shadows passing over the open glade, the throbbing reaching its maximum of portent. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- No, there was ill-portent enough, she would not accept this ring from him in pledge. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Everything seemed dreary: the portents before the birth of Cyrus--Jewish antiquities--oh dear! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Rough portents had met him on his first admission to Fieldhead; but that passage got over, charming and fascinating he resolved to be. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Edited by Henry