forebode

verb

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Pronunciation: /fɔːˈbəʊd/

Etymology: From Middle English foreboden, from Old English forebodian, equivalent to fore- + bode.

Etymology: From Middle English foreboden, from Old English forebodian, equivalent to fore- + bode.

To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
“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.”
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.
“Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Caesar's death.”
“Here sits he shaping wings to fly: / His heart forebodes a mystery: / He names the name Eternity.”