misboding

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of misbode

comparative more misboding · superlative most misboding

1. Feeling a sense of impending disaster.

   My panting heart Could not resist the strong misboding throbs, That rack'd my breast.

   1816, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Il Ratto di Proserpina; or, the Rape of Proserpine

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   The tone of this letter convinced Somerset of the inutility of resistance : and with a misboding heart he invited his adversaries to Windsor '.

   1826, John Lingard, A History of England: From the First Invasion by the Romans

   His thoughts appeared to recur perpetually to the same theme with a misboding iteration.

   1864, Charles Kent, Footprints on the Road, page 257

   The king thus a prisoner in his own palace, with a misboding mind retired to rest a little before midnight.

   1867, The loyalist's daughter, by a royalist, page 303

plural misbodings

1. A presentiment of something bad.

   But the reality far surpasses my most gloomy misbodings.

   1847, John MacHale, The Letters of the Most Reverend John Mac Hale, page 205

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   Still, with all his misbodings, and with the signs of disaffection everywhere, he could have been but imperfectly aware of what was daily and hourly passing in the Castle of Framlingham, on which the royal standard waved.

   1845, George Ayliffe Poole, A history of England, to the accession of queen Victoria

   Yet this misboding which weighs on my brow Is a domestic ill.

   1853, J. Hector T. Courcelle, The Serf: A Play, in Five Acts, page 8