Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who forebodes or presages.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who forebodes.
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- noun archaic an
oracle ; one who tells the future. - noun uncountable Something that implies the imminent occurrence of another event.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He becomes an obscene bird, the foreboder of approaching woe, a lazy owl, a direful omen to mortals.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847
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But may God make me a foreboder of evils never to come!
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey Cottle, Joseph 1847
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With three streamers, sharp and long as the sting of a dragon, the foreboder of wrath rushed through the hosts of the stars.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 11 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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With three streamers, sharp and long as the sting of a dragon, the foreboder of wrath rushed through the hosts of the stars.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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But may God make me a foreboder of evils never to come!
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Joseph Cottle 1811
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But may God make me a foreboder of evils never to come!
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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The debate over the Secretary of State's statement being a foreboder or idle talk may have its place, but there are suggestions that such debate may come to naught in this early time.
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