forebodingn.
/fəˈbəʊdɪŋ/, /fɔːˈbəʊdɪŋ/, U.S. /fɔrˈboʊdɪŋ/ 1.
a. The action of forebode v.; hence, a prediction, presage. (Now only of evil.)
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the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > [noun] > foreboding
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > [noun] > a prediction or prophecy > of evil
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 401 As so as it was by a forbledynge [v.rr. for bedynge, forbodyng] he hadde þat name Seneca.
1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iv. xii. 478 Marcus Crassus..tooke the word as a faire forebodeing.
1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. xxxiv. 357 By which the forebodings of Socrates were realised.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 12 Heedless of the forebodings of many prophets of evil weather.
b. A portent, omen.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [noun]
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1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 351 Þis Remigius semede nyȝ a wonder forbeddynge [v.rr. forbodyng, vorbodyng].
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables clxxviii. moral 149 The Fancy of Omens, Forebodings, Old Wives Tales and Visions.
1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical 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.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > premonition, presentiment > [noun] > instance of > of evil
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1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 186 I say no more for greefe, and foreboding of euill fortune.
1799 R. B. Sheridan Pizarro ii. iii I..cannot fly from the foreboding which oppresses me.
1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life II. 149 She had a foreboding of early death.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
forebodingadj.
/fəˈbəʊdɪŋ/, /fɔːˈbəʊdɪŋ/, U.S. /fɔrˈboʊdɪŋ/ That forebodes, in senses of the verb.
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the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > [adjective] > foreboding
misboding1607
foreboding1679
presageful1729
1679 E. Everard Depositions Popish Plot 7 By a fore-boding guilt they knew perfectly..I had grounds enough wherewith to accuse them.
a1797 E. Burke Thoughts on Scarcity (1800) 47 I can never quote France without a foreboding sigh.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 486 That he by a foreboding name should be called Haggai, i.e. ‘festive’.
Derivatives
foreˈbodingly adv.
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1823 New Monthly Mag. 8 284 He gave me a squeeze of the hand, which was forebodingly forcible.
1857 W. Collins Dead Secret I. iii. ii. 162 Her head shaking forebodingly from time to time.
foreˈbodingness n.
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1801 Coleridge Let. in M. E. Sandford T. Poole & his Friends (1888) II. 48 My gloom and forebodingness respecting pecuniary affairs.
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