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Augury vs Dread - What's the difference?

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Augury is a related term of dread.


As nouns the difference between augury and dread

is that augury is a divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals while dread is great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.

As a verb dread is

to fear greatly.

As an adjective dread is

terrible; greatly feared.

augury

English

Noun

(auguries)
  • A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
  • (by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.
  • * (Edgar Allan Poe)
    • In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.
  • An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
    • , title=Well Tackled! , chapter=2 citation , passage=Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.}}

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "augury")

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Hyponyms

    * ailuromancy, felidomancy (cats) * alectryomancy (chickens) * arachnomancy (spiders) * auspice (birds) * entomomancy (insects) * hippomancy (horses) * ichthyomancy (fish) * myomancy (mice) * myrmomancy (ants) * ophiomancy (snakes) * zoomancy (any animal)

    Related terms

    * augur

    dread

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fear greatly.
  • To anticipate with fear.
    • I'm dreading getting the results of the test, as it could decide my whole life.
  • * 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 22[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/22]
    • Day by day, hole by hole our bearing reins were shortened, and instead of looking forward with pleasure to having my harness put on as I used to do, I began to dread it.
  • To be in dread, or great fear.
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy i. 29
    • Dread not, neither be afraid of them.

    Derived terms

    * dreadable * dreadworthy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
  • * Tillotson
    • the secret dread of divine displeasure
  • * Shakespeare
    • the dread of something after death
  • * '>citation
  • Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
  • * Bible, Genesis ix 2.
    • The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth.
  • * Shakespeare
    • His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, / The attribute to awe and majesty, / Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings.
  • Somebody or something dreaded.
  • (obsolete) A person highly revered.
  • * Spenser
    • Una, his dear dread
  • (obsolete) Fury; dreadfulness.
    • (Spenser)
  • A Rastafarian.
  • (chiefly, in the plural) dreadlock

    • Adjective

    (er)
  • Terrible; greatly feared.
  • (archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.
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    • See also

    * dreadlocks * dreadnought

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