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presage🔊

A warning of a future event; an omen.

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Or if I had rather chosen to call my work a 'Sentimental Tale,' would it not have been a sufficient presage of a heroine with a profusion of auburn hair, and a harp, the soft solace of her solitary hours...
Speak frankly, Mirzes—nor believe thy words, / Whatever black presages they contain, / Subjoin'd to all Trophonius hath foretold, / Can change my firm resolves, or blunt my sword.

An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.

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Glad was I when I reached the other bank. / Now for a better country. Vain presage!

To predict or foretell something.

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If I may trust the flattering truth of sleepe, / My dreames presage some joyfull newes at hand : / My bosomes L. sits lightly in his throne : / And all this day an unaccustom’d spirit, / Lifts me above the ground with cheatfull thoughts […]

To make a prediction.

To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.

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