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Webster 1913 Edition
Forebode
Fore-bode′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Foreboded
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Foreboding
.] 1.
To foretell.
2.
To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
His heart
forebodes
a mystery. Tennyson.
Sullen, desponding, and
foreboding
nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar’s death. Middleton.
Syn. – To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken.
Fore-bode′
,Verb.
I.
To foretell; to presage; to augur.
If I
forebode
aright. Hawthorne.
Fore-bode′
,Noun.
Prognostication; presage.
[Obs.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Forebode
FOREBO'DE
, v.t.1.
To foretell; to prognosticate.2.
To foreknow; to be prescient of; to feel a secret sense of something future; as, my heart forebodes a sad reverse.Definition 2024
forebode
forebode
English
Alternative forms
- forbode (much less commonly used)
Verb
forebode (third-person singular simple present forebodes, present participle foreboding, simple past and past participle foreboded)
- To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
- There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
- To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
- Tennyson
- His heart forebodes a mystery.
- Middleton
- Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Caesar's death.
- H. James
- I have a sort of foreboding about him.
- Tennyson
Translations
to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device)
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Noun
forebode
- (obsolete) prognostication; presage