A sign that is supposed to reveal whether the future will be favourable or not.
Synonyms
Examples for "abode"
Examples for "abode"
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The abode of the gods; The conditioned promise of godhood in Man.
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The heads of the Levites, princes in their families, abode in Jerusalem.
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And we abode in the valley over against the temple of Phogor.
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The young bridegroom abode in the palace one hundred and one weeks.
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And there abode no more but the trunk only in the place.
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I decided to take that as a good omen and kept walking.
2
Adeline turned pale; and Mortimer himself shuddered as he beheld the omen.
3
It is a bad omen to wet the foot in these springs.
4
This is a good omen for the release of her next project.
5
The whelp, as an omen of evil, is mentioned in the Edda.
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I simply trudged behind him as my sense of grim foreboding grew.
2
Tiaan kept on, following his directions with an increasing sense of foreboding.
3
This year the sense of foreboding was made worse by the weather.
4
It was invariably cold, damp, gloomy and foreboding, particularly for the opposition.
5
He was living very much in the present-anugly and foreboding present.
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The Irish Times saw the event as a portent of better times:
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Neither brother had expected a moment so fraught, so heady with portent.
3
The sun-star exhibited a golden halo of ice crystals, portent of change.
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It was nothing less than a portent of what was to come.
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On the other hand, to Thyrsis he was a portent of terror.
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Again the door of the inner office closed with a portending click.
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The ancients ranked this with other celestial phenomena, as portending great events.
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Outside, the sky was again dark and cloudy, portending even more rain.
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But late in February there was a great bustle, portending movement.
5
For five minutes he was absent, then returned with a face portending news.
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She stayed very still with her eyes open wide, filled with forboding.
2
Where in one night both of us dreamed a dream forboding things to come.
3
It is complete statistical nonsense that sounds forboding but is absolutely and entirely meaningless.
4
She dreaded to open the letter, for a strange forboding of evil came over her.
5
A sense of forboding washed over her.
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Such gayety; such jokes; such bravado; and augury of the to be!
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The whole scene was of evil augury for the defence of Paris.
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This was not a happy augury for the head of the family.
4
Romulus had raised the first body with the customary ceremony of augury.
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They defy critical augury, in their unending quest of beauty and truth.
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Parsifal had called yesterday, and she had cut short his roadside augury.
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Some strange birds flew up and made the augury of no effect.
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Good augury should this festival be of the happiness of future years.
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Somehow he felt that it would be of happy augury for himself.
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Hurricane Katrina was an augury of the end for George W Bush.
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You must not speak lightly of the science of augury, Lady Mary.
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Even with his novitiate's eye, he had no trouble reading the augury.
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Answer seemed to gratify her, which you may consider a disagreeable augury.
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His gloomy, self absorbed silence seemed a bad augury for her plans.
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He looked wonderful, surely an augury of the future image of the airline?
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Now science may have found an answer, in the form of molecular augury.
