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foretelling

adjective as in prognostic

adjective as in prognosticative

noun as in prognosis

noun as in prophecy

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Example Sentences

Enemies exulted, foretelling an early dissolution of the feeble bands which held the dangerous Colony together.

By a certain principle understood, the omen was regarded as foretelling good or evil.

Auspicium was properly the foretelling of future events from the inspection of birds; augurium from any omen or prodigy whatever.

Jeanne at Domremy was acquainted with a prophecy foretelling that France would be ruined by a woman and saved by a maiden.

But he believed in foretelling events by means of the stars, in which he did not differ from other princes of his time.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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