forbode
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The oppressive pressure, Raffles noted, “seemed to forbode an earthquake.”
From Scientific American ● Mar. 1, 2013
The lyrics she has written in 1940 forbode Millay-things probably to come.
From Time Magazine Archive
Elphin of lively qualities, Thy resolution is unmanly; Thou must not be over sorrowful: Better to trust in God than to forbode ill.
From The Mabinogion Vol. 3 by Sir Owen Morgan Edwards
But already I forbode the future, they will let us languish and perish, and then lament that they did not lend us assistance sooner.
From The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. I. by Ludwig Tieck
As night-time approaches, it is supposed that this invisible personage rides through the air with his yelping hounds; their weird sound being thought to forbode misfortune of some kind.
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
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