Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A foreboding; omen; presage.
  • noun A foretelling; prediction.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The act or art of presaging; a foreboding.
  • noun rare That which is presaged, or foretold.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act or art of presaging; a foreboding.
  • noun That which is presaged, or foretold.

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Examples

  • In November of 2005, I wrote this blog post as a kind of tongue-in-cheek presagement.

    The WiMax Price Club - Shelly Palmer - MediaBizBloggers 2009

  • They were off the bed in an instant, colliding in the doorway, Marlene scooting ahead, her thoughts full of little boys flaming like torches and the presagement of real, rather than neurotic, unbearable guilt.

    Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002

  • They were off the bed in an instant, colliding in the doorway, Marlene scooting ahead, her thoughts full of little boys flaming like torches and the presagement of real, rather than neurotic, unbearable guilt.

    Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002

  • They were off the bed in an instant, colliding in the doorway, Marlene scooting ahead, her thoughts full of little boys flaming like torches and the presagement of real, rather than neurotic, unbearable guilt.

    Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002

  • In _Notes and Queries_ a correspondent remarks that crowing hens are not uncommon, that their crow is very similar to the crow of a very young cock, and must be taken as a certain presagement of some dire calamity.

    Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter Elliott O'Donnell 1918

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