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nounportension (countable and uncountable, plural portensions)
plural portensions · alternative portention
- countableuncountableThe act of foreshowing; foreboding.
the red Comets do carry the portensions of Mars
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
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