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   presage

   /ˈprɛsɪdʒ/

   verb

   • 1. be a sign or warning of (an imminent event, typically an unwelcome one): "the heavy clouds above the moorland presaged snow"
   • ▪ (of a person) predict: "lands he could measure, terms and tides presage"

   noun

   • 1. an omen or portent: "the fever was a sombre presage of his final illness"
   • ▪ a feeling of presentiment or foreboding: "he had a strong presage that he had only a very short time to live"

   Word Origin late Middle English (as a noun): via French from Latin praesagium, from praesagire ‘forebode’, from prae ‘before’ + sagire ‘perceive keenly’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. presageful adjective

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