Word Meanings - PORTENSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of foreshowing; foreboding. Sir T. Browne.

Related words: (words related to PORTENSION)

• FOREBODINGLY
  In a foreboding manner.
• FOREBODEMENT
  The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.
• FOREBODER
  One who forebodes.
• FOREBODING
  Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.
• FORESHOW
  To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell. Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart. Shak. Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose, Whose purple blush the day foreshows. Denham.
• 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,
• FORESHOWER
  One who predicts.