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   Pres·age

   /prēˈsāj/

   

   verb

   • 1. (of an event) be a sign or warning that (something, typically something bad) will happen: "the outcome of the game presaged the coming year"
   • ▪ (of a person) predict: "lands he could measure, terms and tides presage"

   noun

   • 1. a sign or warning that something, typically something bad, will happen; an omen or portent: "the fever was a somber presage of his final illness"
   • ▪ a feeling of presentiment or foreboding: "he had a strong presage that he had only a very short time to live"

   Word Origin late Middle English (as a noun): via French from Latin praesagium, from praesagire ‘forebode’, from prae ‘before’ + sagire ‘perceive keenly’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. presageful adjective

   Scrabble Points: 10

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