portension
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Compare portent.
Noun
portension (countable and uncountable, plural portensions)
- The act of foreshowing; foreboding.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- the red Comets do carry the portensions of Mars
References
- “portension”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.