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Forebode

//fɔːˈbəʊd// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    prognostication; presage obsolete
Verb
  1. 1
    To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).

    "There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart."

  2. 2
    make a prediction about; tell in advance wordnet
  3. 3
    To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.

    "Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Caesar's death."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English foreboden, from Old English forebodian, equivalent to fore- + bode.

Etymology 2

From Middle English foreboden, from Old English forebodian, equivalent to fore- + bode.

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