Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of ominating; a foreboding; a presaging; prognostication.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of ominating; presaging.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The act of ominating; presaging;
omen .
Etymologies
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Latin ominatio.
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Examples
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Nevertheless, to the discredit of omination, under the same leadership the school did return.
Uppingham by the Sea a Narrative of the Year at Borth John Huntley Skrine 1885
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If any other man by triall happen vpon a better omination, or what soeuer els ye will call it, I will reioyse to be ouermatched in my deuise, and renounce him all the thankes and profite of my trauaile.
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-- (88) {B} ritish {d} omination {g} enerates {t} rue {p} atriotism
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I don’t know is it your spictre or my omination but I’m glad you dimentioned it!
Finnegans Wake 2006
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