forebode

• IPA^(key): /fɔːˈbəʊd/

From Middle English foreboden, from Old English forebodian, equivalent to fore- +‎ bode.

• forbode (much less commonly used)

forebode (third-person singular simple present forebodes, present participle foreboding, simple past and past participle foreboded)

1. To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
   • Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

     There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart.

2. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Tennyson

     His heart forebodes a mystery.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Middleton

     Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Caesar's death.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Henry. James

     I have a sort of foreboding about him.

• (to portend or foretell): foretell, portend, predict

• forebodement
• foreboder

forebode

1. (obsolete) prognostication; presage

• bode

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