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Definition of Portents
1. portent [n] - See also: portent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portents
Literary usage of Portents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reign of William Rufus and the Accession of Henry the First by Edward Augustus Freeman (1882)
"... because "^T' so foul a corpse lay beneath it.1 But as portents had gone before
the fall of ... portents at so portents did not wait for the crumbling of ..."
2. Lun-hêng by Chʻung Wang, Alfred Forke (1907)
"Auspicious portents (Chi-yen). Whenever men are predestinated for something ...
As he was endowed with a wonderful intellect, portents appeared in things. ..."
3. British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes (1880)
"Cambrian Death-portents—The Corpse-Bird—The Tan-\Vedd—Listening at the ...
in Wales these portents assume distinct and striking individualities, ..."
4. The Function of Divine Manifestations in New Testament Times by Leroy Hahn Stafford (1919)
"CHAPTER VII portents In a supernaturalistic view of the universe which conceives
the relation between deity and the world in terms of providence, ..."
5. Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings: Extending from 1716 by Lee, William, Daniel Defoe (1869)
"The Comet again, and on portents and Signs. AJ, Dec. 7.—Sir, I am taken off from
Moralizing upon the useful subject which I had begun in my last (viz. ..."
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