单词 | ill-boding |
释义 | ill-bodingadj. That bodes or portends evil; of evil omen. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [adjective] > of evil omen portentousc1487 shrewd1577 sinister1579 luckless1584 fatal1590 portentive1594 inauspicious1599 misboding1607 mal-ominous1612 ill-bodinga1616 unauspiciousa1616 portentful1633 ill-aboding1635 ill-omened1685 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. v. 6 Malignant and ill-boading Starres. View more context for this quotation 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 57 There cannot be a more ill-boding signe to a Nation. 1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings Son of God II. xxviii. 740 Unhappy Time! Ill-boding hours! 1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 101 Dogs ill-omened, and ill-boding birds, Afforded presages. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < adj.a1616 |
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