Foreboding vs Preominate - What's the difference?
foreboding | preominate |
A sense of evil to come.
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 41
An evil omen.
Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
(obsolete, rare) To feel foreboding about; to prophesy.
(obsolete, rare) To be a portent or omen of.
*1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , V.23:
*:Because many ravens were seen when Alexander entered Babylon, they were thought to preominate his death; and because an owl appeared before the battle, it presaged the ruin of Crassus.
As verbs the difference between foreboding and preominate
is that foreboding is present participle of lang=en while preominate is to feel foreboding about; to prophesy.As a noun foreboding
is a sense of evil to come.As an adjective foreboding
is of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.foreboding
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Alternative forms
* forboding (much less commonly used)Noun
(en noun)- A sense of foreboding , the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.