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Today's Word "presage"

An indication or warning of a future event on

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presage \PRES-ij; pri-SEYJ\ (noun) - 1 : An indication or warning of a future event; an omen. 2 : A feeling or intuition of what the future holds. 3 : Prophetic significance. 4 : [Archaic] A prediction; a prognostication.

(transitive verb) - 1 : To indicate or warn of beforehand; to foreshadow. 2 : To have a presentiment of. 3 : To predict; to foretell.

(intransitive verb) - To make or utter a prediction.

 

"Although the enlightenment and liberation which had been expected to come after the war had not come with victory, a presage of freedom was in the air throughout these post-war years, and it was their only historical meaning." -- Boris Pasternak, 'Doctor Zhivago'

Presage is derived from Latin praesagium, "presentiment," from praesagus "having a presentiment," from prae-, "before" + sagus, "prophetic."


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