Word Meanings - FOREHOLDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication. L'Estrange.

Related words: (words related to FOREHOLDING)

• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• FOREBODINGLY
  In a foreboding manner.
• OMINOUS
  Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.
• SUPERSTITIOUS
  1. Of or pertaining to superstition; proceeding from, or manifesting, superstition; as, superstitious rites; superstitious observances. 2. Evincing superstition; overscrupulous and rigid in religious observances; addicted to superstition; full
• ESTRANGEDNESS
  State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne.
• FOREBODEMENT
  The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.
• FOREBODER
  One who forebodes.
• FOREBODING
  Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.
• ESTRANGEMENT
  The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation. An estrangement from God. J. C. Shairp. A long estrangement from better things. South.
• 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,
• PROGNOSTICATION
  1. The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction. 2. That which foreshows; a foretoken. Shak.
• MULTINOMINAL; MULTINOMINOUS
  Having many names or terms.
• BINOMINOUS
  Binominal.
• ABDOMINOUS
  Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.