presager

See also: présager

English

Etymology

presage + -er

Noun

presager (plural presagers)

  1. One who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a foreboder.
    • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 23:
      O let my books be then the eloquence
      And dumb presagers of my speaking breast ...

References

  • presager in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

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