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Portend   /pɔrtˈɛnd/   Listen
verb
Portend  v. t.  (past & past part. portended; pres. part. portending)  
1.
To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; now used esp. of unpropitious signs. "Many signs portended a dark and stormy day."
2.
To stretch out before. (R.) "Doomed to feel the great Idomeneus' portended steel."
Synonyms: To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; augur; presage; foreshadow; threaten.





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"Portend" Quotes from Famous Books



... made reply my poor Capitaine, the Count de Lasselles. And he stood with a fine and great courtesy waiting for my Gouverneur Faulkner to state to him what his visit could portend, as would he have done in ...
— The Daredevil • Maria Thompson Daviess
... dark eyebrows in some surprise. What could this portend? There was a sort of code of honor at the school that the girls were never to be disturbed by the teachers during ...
— Betty Vivian - A Story of Haddo Court School • L. T. Meade
... to continue his observation of the buccaneers. He saw that the piraguas towed by each vessel were being warped alongside, and he wondered a little what this manoeuver might portend. Awhile those piraguas were hidden from view behind the hulls. Then one by one they reappeared, rowing round and away from the ships, and each boat, he observed, was crowded with armed men. Thus laden, they were headed for the shore, at a point where it was densely ...
— Captain Blood • Rafael Sabatini
... in the night might portend merely the delirium of some other occupant of the catacombs; ...
— The Yellow Claw • Sax Rohmer
... when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the Lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May, They liquid notes that close the eye of Day, First heard before the shallow Cuckoo's bill Portend success in love; O, if Jove's will Have linkt that amorous power to thy soft lay, Now timely sing, ere the rude bird of hate Foretell my hopeless doom in some Grove nigh; As thou from year to year hast sung too late For my relief; yet hadst no reason why, Whether the Muse, or ...
— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar


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