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noun

Forebode n. Prognostication; presage. (Obs.)

verb

Forebode v. t. (past & past part. foreboded; pres. part. foreboding)

To foretell.

To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. "His heart forebodes a mystery." "Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Caesar's death." "I have a sort of foreboding about him."

Synonyms: To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken.

Forebode v. i. To foretell; to presage; to augur. "If I forebode aright."

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Etymology of 'Forebode'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Forebode" Quotes from Famous Books

... O ye fountains, meadows, hills, and groves, Forebode not any severing of our loves! Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might; I only have relinquished one delight To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than when I tripped lightly as they; The innocent brightness of a new-born ...

— The World's Best Poetry Volume IV. • Bliss Carman

... seasons, her black pall Thick-mantling fold on fold; or thitherward From us returning Dawn brings back the day; And when the first breath of his panting steeds On us the Orient flings, that hour with them Red Vesper 'gins to trim his his 'lated fires. Hence under doubtful skies forebode we can The coming tempests, hence both harvest-day And seed-time, when to smite the treacherous main With driving oars, when launch the fair-rigged fleet, Or in ripe hour to fell the forest-pine. Hence, too, not idly do we watch the stars- Their rising and their setting-and the ...

— The Georgics • Virgil

... ponder the matter and consider the issue to which it may lead; for whoso considereth not the issues [of his actions], fortune is no friend to him.' Then they arose on the morrow and occupied themselves with devising how they should turn away their mother from that man, and she forebode mischief from them, by reason of that which she saw in their eyes of alteration, for that she was keen of wit and crafty. So she took precaution for herself against her children and Selma said to Selim, 'Thou seest that whereinto ...

— Tales from the Arabic Volumes 1-3 • John Payne

... rather out of sorts. What it meant as to particulars I no more foreboded then than you forebode now, but it put me rather out of sorts. Howsoever, I made light of it to Pickleson, and I took leave of Pickleson, advising him to spend his legacy in getting up his stamina, and to continue to stand by his religion. Towards morning I kept a look out ...

— Doctor Marigold • Charles Dickens

... was alone in the midst of them many a time, and passed nights over labors, futile perhaps, but in which they could not join him. His dear mistress divined his thoughts with her usual jealous watchfulness of affection: began to forebode a time when he would escape from his home-nest; and, at his eager protestations to the contrary, would only sigh and shake her head. Before those fatal decrees in life are executed, there are always secret previsions ...

— The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. • W. M. Thackeray

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