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▪ I. foreboding, vbl. n.|fɔəˈbəʊdɪŋ|
[f. forebode v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. forebode; hence, a prediction, presage. (Now only of evil.)
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 401 As so as it was by a forbledynge [v.rr. for bedynge, forbodyng] he hadde þat name Seneca. 1618Bolton Florus iv. xii. 320 Marcus Crassus..tooke the word as a faire foreboding. 1838Thirlwall Greece IV. xxxiv. 357 By which the forebodings of Socrates were realised. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. ii. 12 Heedless of the forebodings of many prophets of evil weather.
b. A portent, omen.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 351 Þis Remigius semede nyȝ a wonder forbeddynge [v.rr. forbodyng, vorbodyng]. 1692R. L'Estrange Fables clxxviii. moral 149 The Fancy of Omens, Forebodings, Old Wives Tales and Visions. 1871Palgrave Lyr. Poems 28 Great Ossa..lay Like the foreboding of a coming woe.
2. A presentiment of something to happen, esp. of approaching or overhanging evil.
1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 186, I say no more for griefe, and foreboding of euill fortune. 1799Sheridan Pizarro ii. iii, I..cannot fly from the foreboding which oppresses me. 1883S. C. Hall Retrospect II. 149 She had a foreboding of early death.
▪ II. foreboding, ppl. a.|fɔəˈbəʊdɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That forebodes, in senses of the vb.
1679E. Everard Popish Plot 7 By a fore-boding guilt they knew perfectly..I had grounds enough wherewith to accuse them. 1795Burke Th. Scarcity Wks. 1842 II. 257, I can never quote France without a foreboding sigh. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 486 That he by a foreboding name should be called Haggai, i.e. ‘festive’.
Hence foreˈbodingly adv.; foreˈbodingness.
1801Coleridge Let. in Mrs. Sandford T. Poole & Friends (1888) II. 48 My gloom and forebodingness respecting pecuniary affairs. 1823New Monthly Mag. VIII. 284 He gave me a squeeze of the hand, which was forebodingly forcible. 1857W. Collins Dead Secret iii. ii. (1861) 79 Her head shaking forebodingly from time to time. |