bodement

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noun

An omen; a prognostic.

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Meanings

nounbodement (plural bodements)

plural bodements

  1. obsoleteAn omen; a prognostic.

    This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl Makes all these bodements.

    c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]

Origin

From bode + -ment.

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