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单词 ill-boding
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ill-bodingadj.

Etymology: ill- comb. form 1b(a).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈill-ˈboding.
That bodes or portends evil; of evil omen.
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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).
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