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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, Mirzesβnor 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 handβ―: / My bosomes L. sits lightly in his throneβ―: / And all this day an unaccustomβd spirit, / Lifts me above the ground with cheatfull thoughts [β¦]
To make a prediction.
To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
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