Bode vs Betoken - What's the difference?
bode | betoken | Synonyms |
To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow.
To foreshow something; to augur.
* Dryden
An omen; a foreshadowing.
* Chaucer
(obsolete, or, dialect) A bid; an offer.
A messenger; a herald.
A stop; a halting; delay.
(bide)
* Tennyson
Signify by some visible object; show by signs or tokens.
* 1557 :
Foreshow by present signs; indicate something future by that which is seen or known.
* 1853 : ,
Bode is a synonym of betoken.
As a proper noun bode
is .As a verb betoken is
signify by some visible object; show by signs or tokens.bode
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) boden, from (etyl) ). : Since 1740 also a shortening of forebodeVerb
(bod)- Whatever now / The omen proved, it boded well to you.
Derived terms
* bodementNoun
(en noun)- The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- (Robertson)
Etymology 2
*Verb
(head)- There that night they bode .
References
* [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=bode&searchmode=none]Anagrams
* English irregular simple past forms ----betoken
English
Verb
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- There be other 2 signes in often use of which the first is made thus?+?and betokeneth' more?:?the other is thus made?–?and ' betokeneth lesse.
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- “?Ah?!?hospitable land, thou (nevertheless) betokenest' war,” ''i.?e.'', although hospitable, thou nevertheless '''betokenest war.?—?''Bello .
