Definition of Forebodes

1. Verb. (third-person singular of forebode) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Forebodes

1. forebode [v] - See also: forebode

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forebodes

forebearance
forebearer
forebearers
forebears
forebeat
forebelief
forebemoaned
forebitt
forebitts
forebode
foreboded
forebodement
forebodements
foreboder
foreboders
forebodes (current term)
forebodies
foreboding
foreboding(a)
forebodingly
forebodingness
forebodings
forebody
foreboom
forebooms
forebore
forebrace
forebraces
forebrain
forebrain eminence

Literary usage of Forebodes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Birds of Manitoba by Ernest Thompson Seton (1891)
"... forebodes an end of rain, etc., at which time its note is very clear, and serins to resemble the following words, "tweet, ..."

2. Ireland in 1868, the Battle-field for English Party Strife: Its Grievances by Gerald Fitzgibbon (1868)
"That it forebodes legislative tampering with existing laws and vested rights is too evident and too certain, and past experience of such tampering is ..."

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