different between augury vs boding
augury
English
Etymology
augur +? -y, or from Middle English augurie, from Old French augurie, from Latin augurium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???.?j?.?i/
Noun
augury (countable and uncountable, plural auguries)
- A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
- (by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.
- 1850, James Russell Lowell, The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 1/Edgar A. Poe
- In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 15:
- No augury could be hopefuller. The Fates must indeed be hard, the Ordeal severe, the Destiny dark, that could destroy so bright a Spring!
- 1850, James Russell Lowell, The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 1/Edgar A. Poe
- An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:augury.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:omen
Hyponyms
Related terms
- augur
Translations
augury From the web:
- what augury appeared to remus and romulus
- augury meaning
- augury what does that mean
- what is augury in the bible
boding
English
Etymology
From bode +? -ing.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b??d??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?bo?d??/
- Hyphenation: bod?ing
Adjective
boding (comparative more boding, superlative most boding)
- foreboding, ominous, portending.
Noun
boding (plural bodings)
- gerund of bode: a prediction of disaster; an omen, a portent.
Verb
boding
- present participle of bode
Anagrams
- Dobing
boding From the web:
- what boding mean
- what boding well mean
- what does boding mean
- boarding school
- boarding pass
- boxing day
- what does bode well mean
- what does boding
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