Word Meanings - ABODEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A foreboding; an omen. "Abodements must not now affright us." Shak.
Related words: (words related to ABODEMENT)
- FOREBODINGLY
In a foreboding manner. - AFFRIGHTER
One who frightens. - AFFRIGHTFUL
Terrifying; frightful. -- Af*fright"ful*ly, adv. Bugbears or affrightful apparitions. Cudworth. - AFFRIGHTEDLY
With fright. Drayton. - AFFRIGHTEN
To frighten. "Fit tales . . . to affrighten babes." Southey. - AFFRIGHTMENT
Affright; the state of being frightened; sudden fear or alarm. Passionate words or blows . . . fill the child's mind with terror and affrightment. Locke. - FOREBODEMENT
The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded. - FOREBODER
One who forebodes. - FOREBODING
Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune. - FOREBODE
1. To foretell. 2. To be prescient of ; to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. His heart forebodes a mystery. Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, - AFFRIGHT
To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm. Dreams affright our souls. Shak. A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Milton. Syn. -- To terrify; frighten; alarm; dismay; appall; scare; startle; daunt; - SELF-AFFRIGHTED
Frightened at or by one's self. Shak.