Definitions

presage

[pres-ij, pres-ij, pri-seyj] / ˈprɛs ɪdʒ, ˈprɛs ɪdʒ, prɪˈseɪdʒ /

NOUN

prediction, indication

Synonyms

STRONG

apprehension apprehensiveness augury auspice boding forecast foretoken forewarning harbinger intimation misgiving omen portent premonition presentiment prognostic prognostication prophecy sign warning

WEAK

bodement prenotion

VERB

predict or have a feeling

Synonyms

STRONGEST

augur forebode foresee foreshadow foretell portend signify

STRONG

adumbrate announce betoken bode divine feel forecast foreshow foretoken forewarn harbinger herald intuit omen prognosticate promise prophesy sense vaticinate warn

WEAK

forerun point to preindicate soothsay

Example Sentences

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Presage usually means to give as a presentiment or warning.

From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)

I felt my heart as turn'd to snow, Presage, perhaps, that happiness decays!

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

What hateful wretch is this whose mighty thews Presage destruction to his adversaries?

From The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded by Shaw, Bernard

The more skilful Sailors took Courage at this happy Presage of Deliverance.

From Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton by Defoe, Daniel

So Romulus, 'tis sung, by Tiber's brook, Presage of sway from twice six vultures took.

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

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