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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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            Catalan
            auguri
            Augury through the time
            Augury across language varieties
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