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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.

 

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