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Definition of Portended
1. portend [v] - See also: portend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portended
Literary usage of Portended
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Grecian History: From the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great by Oliver Goldsmith (1826)
"... but he brought forward some Egyptian soothsayers, w'ho assured the army, "
That the moon portended calamities not to the Greeks, but the Persians. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Comprising the History, Institutions by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"Nor was that saying false, for it portended the rupture of the people, and the
deposition of him who caused it (ie Nestorius). ..."
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