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Presage vs Signify - What's the difference?

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Presage is a related term of signify.


As verbs the difference between presage and signify

is that presage is while signify is to give (something) a meaning or an importance.

presage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A warning of a future event; an omen.
  • An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.

    • Verb

    (presag)
  • To predict or foretell something.
  • * Shakespeare
    • My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
    • , 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.

    • Synonyms

    * foreshadow * portend

    signify

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To give (something) a meaning or an importance.
  • To show one’s intentions with a sign etc.
  • * (rfdate) (William Shakespeare)
    • I'll to the king; and signify to him / That thus I have resign'd my charge to you.
  • * (rfdate) (Jonathan Swift)
    • The government should signify to the Protestants of Ireland that want of silver is not to be remedied.
  • To mean; to betoken.
  • * (rfdate) (William Shakespeare)
    • A tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.

    Synonyms

    * (l) * (l)