Baleful vs Presage - What's the difference?
baleful | presage |
Portending evil; ominous.
* 1674 -- John Milton: )
* 1873 ,
Miserable, wretched, distressed, suffering.
A warning of a future event; an omen.
An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
To predict or foretell something.
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times
, passage=That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past. }}
To make a prediction.
To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
As an adjective baleful
is portending evil; ominous.As a verb presage is
.baleful
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Alternative forms
* balefull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- round he throws his baleful eyes, that witnessed huge affliction and dismay.
- The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms,
- Amidst the soundless solitudes immense
- Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.
presage
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(presag)- My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
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