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Harbinger vs Forebode - What's the difference?

harbinger | forebode |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between harbinger and forebode

is that harbinger is (obsolete) one who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the english royal household who formerly preceded the court when travelling, to provide and prepare lodgings while forebode is (obsolete) prognostication; presage.

As nouns the difference between harbinger and forebode

is that harbinger is a person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something while forebode is (obsolete) prognostication; presage.

As verbs the difference between harbinger and forebode

is that harbinger is to announce; to be a harbinger of while forebode is to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).

harbinger

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.
  • * Landor
    • I knew by these harbingers who were coming.
  • (obsolete) One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when travelling, to provide and prepare lodgings.
    • (Fuller)

    Synonyms

    * forewarning, herald, omen, premonition, sign, signal, prophet

    External links

    *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To announce; to be a harbinger of.

    • Synonyms

    * herald

    References

    *

    See also

    *bellwether

    forebode

    English

    Alternative forms

    * forbode (much less commonly used)

    Verb

    (forebod)
  • To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
  • * (Nathaniel Hawthorne), The Scarlet Letter
    • There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart.
  • To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
  • * Tennyson
    • His heart forebodes a mystery.
  • * Middleton
    • Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Caesar's death.
  • * H. James
    • I have a sort of foreboding about him.

    Noun

  • (obsolete) prognostication; presage

    • See also

    * bode