different between forebode vs forebore
forebode
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f???b??d/
Etymology
From Middle English foreboden, from Old English forebodian, equivalent to fore- +? bode.
Alternative forms
- forbode (much less commonly used)
Verb
forebode (third-person singular simple present forebodes, present participle foreboding, simple past and past participle foreboded)
- To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
- 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.
- 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.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Two Voices
- His heart forebodes a mystery.
- 1741, Conyers Middleton, Life of Cicero
- Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Caesar's death.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Two Voices
Synonyms
- (to portend or foretell): foretell, portend, predict
Derived terms
- forebodement
- foreboder
Translations
Noun
forebode
- (obsolete) prognostication; presage
See also
- bode
References
- forebode at OneLook Dictionary Search
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forebore
English
Verb
forebore
- simple past tense and past participle of forbear
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