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Definition of Presaging
1. presage [v] - See also: presage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Presaging
Literary usage of Presaging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"... 890 Now speedy death attends the guiltless If my presaging soul divines with
truth; Which, О 1 I wish, might err thro' causeless fears, And you (for you ..."
2. The Influence of Buddhism on Primitive Christianity by Arthur Lillie (1893)
"The Four presaging Tokens. SOOTHSAYERS were consulted by King Suddhodana. ...
If he is destined to be a great Buddha, four presaging tokens will make his ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1816)
"There were, indeed, appearances which a boding mind might regard as presaging an
interruption of the calm succeeding a tempest so dreadfully and widely ..."
4. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1884)
"... when it does so, dark clouds of mist rise from the tarn and cluster round the
peaks of the mountain, presaging a tempest which is sure to follow. ..."
5. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"First, such as might proceed only from the natural presaging power of created
spirit superior to men, 1—5 ; Matt. xxiv. 24 ; 2 These, ii. 9. 10. 11. 1. ..."
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