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Definition of Portends
1. portend [v] - See also: portend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portends
Literary usage of Portends
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1844)
"Which change of fortune, commonly portends. LIB. IV. "0 To armies or unto seafaring
men; broken by Splendid and sparkling on the ground did light. ..."
2. The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571 by Kenneth M. Setton (1978)
"of him, it portends evil for Christendom."37 Indeed it did, and such word had
reached him by 12 July at Graz, where the court had been since late May: "Here ..."
3. Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry: From the Year by Mary Berry (1865)
"... of the interference of Russia, and portending (joined to other circumstances),
if it portends anything, his coming into power with peaceable views. ..."
4. The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the by Robert Forby (1830)
"A failure of the Crop of Ash-leys portends a death in the Royal Family. With what
obscure traditionary or legendary tale this foolish notion may be ..."
5. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1809)
"But such the deeds thy radiant morn portends, Aw'd by thy frown ev'n now old
Atlas bends His hoary head, ..."
6. Letters to a Young Lady,: In which the Duties and Character of Women are by West (Jane) (1806)
"... the change of manners and pursuits among these are so market!, that the most
superficial observers must be alarmed at the prospect of what it portends. ..."
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