Intimation vs Augury - What's the difference?
intimation | augury | Related terms |
The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.
Announcement; declaration.
* (Holland)
A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given only intimations of his design.
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* 1862 , (Henry David Thoreau), :
A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
(by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.
* (Edgar Allan Poe)
An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.
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Intimation is a related term of augury.
As nouns the difference between intimation and augury
is that intimation is the act of intimating; also, the thing intimated while augury is a divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.intimation
English
Noun
(en noun)- They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished.
- Without mentioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him.
- At length, perchance, the immaterial heaven will appear as much higher to the American mind, and the intimations that star it as much brighter.
augury
English
Noun
(auguries)- In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.
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