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Meanings of augury in English

Portuguese
augúrio
Catalan
auguri

An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.

augúrio

A sign that is supposed to reveal whether the future will be favourable or not.

Usage of augury in English
1
Such gayety; such jokes; such bravado; and augury of the to be!
The Iron Game: A Tale of the War
2
The whole scene was of evil augury for the defence of Paris.
My Days of Adventure / The Fall of France, 1870-71
3
This was not a happy augury for the head of the family.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the ...
4
Romulus had raised the first body with the customary ceremony of augury.
Lives of the Necromancers
5
They defy critical augury, in their unending quest of beauty and truth.
A Study of Poetry
6
Parsifal had called yesterday, and she had cut short his roadside augury.
The Descent
7
Some strange birds flew up and made the augury of no effect.
Dio's Rome, Volume 2 / An Historical Narrative Originally Compos...
8
Good augury should this festival be of the happiness of future years.
The Last Man
9
Somehow he felt that it would be of happy augury for himself.
What Timmy Did
10
Hurricane Katrina was an augury of the end for George W Bush.
The Guardian
11
You must not speak lightly of the science of augury, Lady Mary.
Belles and Ringers
12
Even with his novitiate's eye, he had no trouble reading the augury.
The Irda (Children of the Stars)
13
Answer seemed to gratify her, which you may consider a disagreeable augury.
At Last: A Novel
14
His gloomy, self absorbed silence seemed a bad augury for her plans.
Joan of Naples / Celebrated Crimes
15
He looked wonderful, surely an augury of the future image of the airline?
The Irish Times
16
Now science may have found an answer, in the form of molecular augury.
Wired
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Translations for augury
Catalan
auguri
Augury through the time
Augury across language varieties
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