Definitions for presages

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presages pres·age

Spelling: [noun pres-ij; verb pres-ij, pri- Presages is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 286 anagrams from letters in presages (aeegprss).

Definitions for presages

noun

1. a presentiment or foreboding.
2. something that portends or foreshadows a future event; an omen, prognostic, or warning indication.
3. prophetic significance; augury.
4. foresight; prescience.
5. Archaic. a forecast or prediction.

verb (used with object)

1. to have a presentiment of.
2. to portend, foreshow, or foreshadow:
3. to forecast; predict.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a prediction.
2. Archaic. to have a presentiment.

Origin of presages

1350-1400; Middle English (noun) Middle French presage Latin praesāgium presentiment, forewarning, equivalent to praesāg(us) having a foreboding (prae- pre- + sāgus pr

Examples for presages

Transient thought of that which shall be, presage of better rest?

But I recall nothing in Possession, Angels & Insects, Babel Tower, or her other books that seems to presage this one.

Thus she left him without so much as a backward glance to presage future favour.

But the softness in the Christmas air did not presage a thaw.

In the early spring of 1784 Diderot had an attack which he knew to be the presage of the end.

Such conspiracies were the presage of what was soon to happen in Germany.

Then for a long while she could not sleep at night and was haunted by a presage of disaster.

From quotes Clinton a lot, and he credits Clinton with saying that an intellectual resurgence has to presage political power.

For a moment there was a pause, as if at a presage of disaster.

Fatal words they were,—the presage of the mishap they threatened!