A sign of something about to happen.
A sign that is supposed to reveal whether the future will be favourable or not.
1 The Irish Times saw the event as a portent of better times:
2 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.
4 It was nothing less than a portent of what was to come.
5 On the other hand, to Thyrsis he was a portent of terror.
6 A second difference of even greater portent was the motif of gathering.
7 All his inner being trembled at the portent of his next query.
8 Almo's austere celibacy is a portent in our world and altogether marvellous.
9 John looked puzzled, not quite understanding the portent of this cryptic saying.
10 Or she'll grow into a portent and a peril and a pest.
11 It was her Majesty's remedy for that new portent , the revolting daughter.
12 The Black Coach had been a death portent , warning of impending doom.
13 There was portent in it; things seemed to be closing in.
14 The stillness grew in portent ; the forest creatures moved more furtively.
15 Everyone believed in astrology; the comet of 1680 was regarded as a portent .
16 The portent is fulfilled; the Heir of Cerdic is no more.
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