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Portend   /pɔrtˈɛnd/   Listen
verb
Portend  v. t.  (past & past part. portended; pres. part. portending)  
1.
To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; now used esp. of unpropitious signs. "Many signs portended a dark and stormy day."
2.
To stretch out before. (R.) "Doomed to feel the great Idomeneus' portended steel."
Synonyms: To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; augur; presage; foreshadow; threaten.





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"Portend" Quotes from Famous Books



... number of experiences related to me, hauntings by phantom hares and rabbits would appear to be far from uncommon. There is this difference, however, between the hauntings by the two species of animal—phantom hares usually portend death or some grave catastrophe, either to the witness himself, or to someone immediately associated with him; whereas phantom rabbits are seldom prophetic, and may generally be looked upon merely as the earth-bound spirits of some poor ...
— Animal Ghosts - Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter • Elliott O'Donnell
... dinner progressed, found himself watching Delavan Eyre, opposite, who was drinking with sustained intensity, but without apparent effect upon his debonair bearing. Banneker thought to read a haunting fear in his eyes, and was cogitating upon what it might portend, when his attention was distracted by Ely Ives, who had been requested (as he announced) to exhibit his small skill at some minor sleight-of-hand tricks. The skill, far from justifying its possessor's modest estimate, was so unusual as to ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... drest him? To. And with what wing the stallion checkes at it? Mal. I may command, where I adore: Why shee may command me: I serue her, she is my Ladie. Why this is euident to any formall capacitie. There is no obstruction in this, and the end: What should that Alphabeticall position portend, if I could make that resemble something ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... did this tone portend? The eccentric man seated himself with slow movement. Seen by a good light, his face was not gloomy, but ...
— Born in Exile • George Gissing
... for the purpose of celebrating the Messiah, or "Ghost Dance." Like all religious celebrations among savage people, it was accompanied by the grossest excesses and most revolting immoralities. As it was not known what serious happening these large gatherings might portend, the President, at the request of many people, sent troops to disperse the Indians. The Indians resisted, and blood was spilled, among the slain being the sons of the Indian who stood by the ...
— Last of the Great Scouts - The Life Story of William F. Cody ["Buffalo Bill"] • Helen Cody Wetmore


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