Meanings
nounpresagement (countable and uncountable, plural presagements)
plural presagements
- countableuncountableThe act or art of presaging; a foreboding.
The falling of Salt is an authenticke preſagement of ill lucke, nor can every temper contemne it, from whence notwithſtanding nothing can be naturally feared: […]
1646, Thomas Browne, “Compendiouſly of many queſtionable cuſtomes, opinions, pictures, practiſes, and popular obſervations”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 5th book, paragraph 3, page 265 - countableuncountableThat which is presaged, or foretold.
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