Prognostication vs Presage - What's the difference?
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A statement about or prior knowledge of the future.
* 1837 , The Dublin University Magazine
A warning of a future event; an omen.
An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
To predict or foretell something.
* Shakespeare
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To make a prediction.
To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
Prognostication is a related term of presage.
As a noun prognostication
is a statement about or prior knowledge of the future.As a verb presage is
.prognostication
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Noun
(en noun)- She could have joined most comfortably in all their supposings, and suspicions, and doubts, and prognostications , but the honour of the family was too nearly concerned to allow free reins to her tongue.
presage
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(presag)- My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
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