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presageful, a.|prɪˈseɪdʒfʊl|
[f. presage n. + -ful. (The pronunc. retains the earlier stress.)]
1. Full of presage; portentous, ominous.
1591Sylvester Ivry 182 O Princely Port! Presagefull Countenance Of Hap at hand! 1605― Du Bartas ii. iii. iii. Law 179 Presagefull rays of somwhat more divine. 1726–46Thomson Winter 70 The brawling brook, And cave, presageful, send a hollow moan, Resounding long in listening Fancy's ear. 1820L. Hunt Indicator No. 62 (1822) II. 75 The presageful nature of the meteor. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. II. iii. lxxi. 584 A better chance of winning the preliminary canter, and thereby securing the advantage of a presageful victory.
2. Full of presentiment or foreboding.
1729Savage Wanderer v. 142 No sad, presageful Thought preluded Fate. 1796Coleridge Sonn., to Friend who asked how I felt, etc. 10 Dark remembrance and presageful fear. 1859Tennyson Vivien 293 Ev'n such a wave,..Dark in the glass of some presageful mood, Had I for three days seen.
Hence preˈsagefully adv.
1844Browning Colombe's Birthday iii, Presagefully it beats, presagefully, My heart. |