boding

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bod·ing

(bō′dĭng)

An omen or foreboding, especially of evil.

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bod•ing

(ˈboʊ dɪŋ)

n.

a foreboding.

[before 1000]

bod′ing•ly, adv.

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boding - a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case"

foreboding, premonition, presentiment

apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread - fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"

shadow - a premonition of something adverse; "a shadow over his happiness"

presage - a foreboding about what is about to happen

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He recollected now many omens and presages of this happy event, some of which he had remarked at the time, but many more he now remembered; nor did he omit the dreams he had dreamt the evening before his meeting with Jones; and concluded with saying, "I always told your honour something boded in my mind that you would one time or other have it in your power to make my fortune." Jones assured him that this boding should as certainly be verified with regard to him as all the other omens had been to himself; which did not a little add to all the raptures which the poor fellow had already conceived on account of his master.

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And the story tells how the boding sorrow that Deirdre felt fulfilled itself, and how they were betrayed, and how the brothers fought and died, and how Deirdre mourned until

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The lady shook upon her companion's knees as she heard that boding sound.

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Meanwhile the fleet runner Antilochus, who had been sent as messenger, reached Achilles, and found him sitting by his tall ships and boding that which was indeed too surely true.