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[ noun pres -ij; verb pres -ij, pri-seyj ] SHOW IPA
/ noun ˈprɛs ɪdʒ; verb ˈprɛs ɪdʒ, prɪˈseɪdʒ / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun a presentiment or foreboding.
something that portends or foreshadows a future event; an omen, prognostic, or warning indication.
prophetic significance; augury.
foresight; prescience.
Archaic . a forecast or prediction.
SEE MORE SEE LESS verb (used with object), pres·aged, pres·ag·ing. to have a presentiment of.
to portend, foreshow, or foreshadow: The incidents may presage war.
SEE MORE SEE LESS verb (used without object), pres·aged, pres·ag·ing. to make a prediction.
Archaic . to have a presentiment.
Origin of presage 1350–1400; Middle English (noun) <Middle French presage <Latin praesāgium presentiment, forewarning, equivalent to praesāg (us ) having a foreboding (prae- pre- + sāgus prophetic; cf. sagacious) + -ium -ium
SYNONYMS FOR presage 1 foreshadowing, indication, premonition.
2 portent, sign, token.
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OTHER WORDS FROM presage pres·age·ful, adjective pres·age·ful·ly, adverb pres·ag·er, noun un·pres·aged, adjective
un·pres·ag·ing, adjective
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Example sentences from the Web for presage From quotes Clinton a lot, and he credits Clinton with saying that an intellectual resurgence has to presage political power.
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But I recall nothing in Possession, Angels & Insects, Babel Tower, or her other books that seems to presage this one.
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It passes only at night, and it is thought to presage some disaster to those who see it.
Lost Man's Lane | Anna Katharine Green
In their eyes it was blood, and a presage of dreadful slaughter.
Robin Tremayne | Emily Sarah Holt
At Oundle "There is a Well that is credibly reported to drum as a presage of very great alterations to publick affairs."
Weather and Folk Lore of Peterborough and District | Charles Dack
It was the exception to manners then prevalent, and the presage of manners to come long afterward.
Catholic World, Vol. XI, April 1870-September 1870 | Various
But your face to-night is like a presage of calamity, like the dull, livid sky that goes before a thunderstorm.'
Phantom Fortune, A Novel | M. E. Braddon
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British Dictionary definitions for presage noun (ˈprɛsɪdʒ ) an intimation or warning of something about to happen; portent; omen
a sense of what is about to happen; foreboding
archaic a forecast or prediction
verb (ˈprɛsɪdʒ , prɪˈseɪdʒ ) (tr) to have a presentiment of
(tr) to give a forewarning of; portend
(intr) to make a prediction
Derived forms of presage presageful , adjective presagefully , adverb presager , noun Word Origin for presage C14: from Latin praesāgium presentiment, from praesāgīre to perceive beforehand, from sāgīre to perceive acutely
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