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plural omens
Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury. quotations examples
Day broke. He saw three black hens asleep in a tree. He shuddered, horrified at this omen. Then he promised the Holy Virgin three chasubles for the church, and that he would go barefooted from the cemetery at Bertaux to the chapel of Vassonville.
1856, Gustave Flaubert, chapter 10, in Eleanor Marx-Aveling, transl., Madame Bovary, Part 3
A thing of prophetic significance. examples
third-person singular simple present omens, present participle omening, simple past and past participle omened
(transitive) To be an omen of. examples
(intransitive) To divine or predict from omens. examples