portent

SEE DEFINITION OF portent

sensation

noun. something wonderful or awe-inspiring

sensations

noun. something wonderful or awe-inspiring

sign of things to come

noun. omen

straw in the wind

noun. indication of coming event

stunner

noun. marvel

Word Origin & History

1560s, from Middle French portente, from Latin portentum "a sign, token, omen; monster, monstrosity," noun use of neuter of portentus, past participle of portendre (see portend).

Example Sentences forportent

It was the hush of portent, the hush of watchfulness, the hush of a threatening tension.

They had him, but it was like getting hold of an apparition, a wraith, a portent.

The silence without was only portent of the storm so soon to burst.

It was because he was a failure in literature that he became a portent in English history.

And, try as I might, I felt it to be a portent and a prophecy.

The Impending Crisis was a portent and an impulse of the coming catastrophe.

Detached, no portion of the ritual had meaning; its portent lay in the whole.

They didn't receive it, but by his theory the portent was only the stronger.

The sea has a greasy look and this heavy ground swell is a portent.

But for that portent, whatever it boded, she might have been not my wife but his.

portent

sensation

sensations

sign

sign of things to come

signification

signs

straw in the wind

stunner

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