different between augury vs premonition
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
premonition
English
Alternative forms
- præmonition (archaic)
Etymology
Mid 15th century, from Anglo-Norman premunition, from Ecclesiastical Latin praemoniti?nem (“a forewarning”), form of praemoniti?, from Latin praemonitus, past participle of praemone?, from prae (“before”) (English pre-) + mone? (“to warn”) (from which English monitor).
Compare Germanic forewarning.
Pronunciation
- enPR: pr?m'?-, pr?'m?-n?sh??n
- Rhymes: -???n
Noun
premonition (plural premonitions)
- A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
- Synonym: vision
- A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).
- Synonyms: bad feeling, foreboding, gut feeling, hunch, (informal) second sight
Derived terms
- premonitory
Translations
References
premonition From the web:
- what premonition does romeo have
- what premonition mean
- what premonition does juliet have
- what premonition/nightmare does romeo have
- what premonition did esperanza have
- what premonitions of santiago's death are there
- what premonition does hrothgar have
- what premonition does romeo have in act 1 scene 4
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