Definition of Portents. Meaning of Portents. Synonyms of Portents

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Definition of Portents

Portent
Portent Por*tent" (?; 277), n. [L. portentum. See Portend.] That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign. --Shak. My loss by dire portents the god foretold. --Dryden.

Meaning of Portents from wikipedia

- Look up portent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Portent may refer to: Portent (divination), a phenomenon that is believed to foretell the ****ure,...
- An omen (also called portent) is a phenomenon that is believed to foretell the ****ure, often signifying the advent of change. It was commonly believed...
- The Portent is a comic book by Peter Bergting [sv], published by Image Comics. Bergting writes, draws and colors the comic himself. In a world set in...
- USS Portent (AM-106) was an Auk-class minesweeper acquired by the United States Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in...
- (525–456 BC) noted that ashes falling from a fireplace could be divined for portents. A word, phrase, name, or question would be written in the ashes with a...
- butterflies that the people were frightened—thinking the apparition to be a portent of coming evil. In the ancient Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan, the brilliantly...
- Babylon 5 station commissioned 2257 • The Gathering (Pilot) 2258 • Signs and Portents (Season 1) 2259 • The Coming of Shadows (Season 2) 2260 • Point of No Return...
- personally broke Nehru. (e) Ganguly, Sumit (1997), The Crisis in Kashmir: Portents of War, Hope of Peace, Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University...
- one's going. Killick, Jane (1997). "By Any Means Necessary". Signs and Portents (1st ed.). New York Ballantine. ISBN 978-0-345-42451-8. Straczynski, J...
- 1998). "In the Region / Long Island; In Maxi-Mansion Furor, Echoes and Portents?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 5, 2018. Crowe...