Boding vs Presage - What's the difference?
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An omen, a prediction of disaster, a portent.
* Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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.
Boding is a related term of presage.
As verbs the difference between boding and presage
is that boding is while presage is .As a noun boding
is an omen, a prediction of disaster, a portent.As an adjective boding
is portending, ominous.boding
English
Noun
(en noun)- The boding of the tree toad.
Verb
(head)presage
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(presag)- My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
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