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Portents meaning
plural of portent
Example sentences (10)
We are drawn to spooky signs and portents – does the reappearance of the signal catastrophe?
Those portents are there in the lawn signs.
Among those who control money, portents of further trade hostilities between the United States and China, the two largest economies on earth, have proved an impetus to sell with abandon while amplifying talk of recession.
This is a very coincidence, for the show is full of sly signs, portents, and odd, incidental details that end up paying out many episodes later.
Act II While Duncan is asleep, Macbeth stabs him, despite his doubts and a number of supernatural portents, including a hallucination of a bloody dagger.
From then on he began to be surrounded by stories about omens and portents that supposedly announced his future imperial condition.
His sister recalled that Booth wrote down the palm-reader's prediction, showed it to his family and others, and often discussed its portents in moments of melancholy in later years.
Many signs and portents were claimed to have taken place at the moment of his death, including the dome of Florence Cathedral being struck by lightning, ghosts appearing, and the lions kept at Via Leone fighting one another.
Omens and portents, he believed, are the natural symptoms of certain occurrences.
Ultimately the whole family were transformed into birds and more specifically ill portents for mankind.