presage

• It was a calamity of direful presage, and thereupon all Siam went into a consternation of mourning. —  THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT
• He immediately adopted the presage, and understood the spot where he then was to be the site of his intended city Strabo says that Myscelus, who was so called from the smallness of his legs, designing to found a colony in a foreign land, arrived on the coast of Italy. —  The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
• This sentiment of ill-presage was re-echoed in the address of the Episcopal clergymen Your Majesty has been trained up," said these divines, at Fetteresso, "in the School of the Cross, in which the Divine grace inspires the mind with true wisdom and virtue, and guards it against those false blandishments by which prosperity corrupts the heart." —  Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
• But vain was the presage--idle were her fears. —  Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)
• And then at sacrifice the Gods refuse Our prayers and savour of the thigh-bone fat-- And of ill presage is the thickening cry Of bird that battens upon human gore Now, then, my son, take thought. —  The Seven Plays in English Verse

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Word Family