Augury vs Harbinger - What's the difference?
augury | harbinger | Synonyms |
A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
(by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.
* (Edgar Allan Poe)
An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.
*{{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=2 A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.
* Landor
(obsolete) One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when travelling, to provide and prepare lodgings.
Augury is a synonym of harbinger.
As nouns the difference between augury and harbinger
is that augury is a divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals while harbinger is a person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.As a verb harbinger is
to announce; to be a harbinger of.augury
English
Noun
(auguries)- 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.
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.}}
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* (English Citations of "augury")Synonyms
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* ailuromancy, felidomancy (cats) * alectryomancy (chickens) * arachnomancy (spiders) * auspice (birds) * entomomancy (insects) * hippomancy (horses) * ichthyomancy (fish) * myomancy (mice) * myrmomancy (ants) * ophiomancy (snakes) * zoomancy (any animal)harbinger
English
Noun
(en noun)- I knew by these harbingers who were coming.
- (Fuller)