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Auspice vs Presentiment - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between auspice and presentiment

is that auspice is patronage or protection while presentiment is a premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.

auspice

English

(wikipedia auspice)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chiefly, in the plural) Patronage or protection.
    • This building was built under the auspices of the Friends of the Poor.
  • An omen or a sign.
    • The circle of vultures was not a good auspice .
  • (obsolete) Divination from the actions of birds.

    • Hypernyms

    * (patronage or protection) support * (divination from the actions of birds) augury, fortunetelling, divination

    Related terms

    * auspiced * auspicing * auspicious

    See also

    * allspice ----

    presentiment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.
  • *
  • * 1973 , Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight :
    • Everything on the surface appeared to be just as it ought to be. And yet Constantin Demiris still felt that vague sense of unease, a presentiment of trouble.

    Synonyms

    * (l) * (l) * (l)