Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who presages or foretells; a prophet.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a foreboder.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a foreboder.

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Examples

  • Ce qui laisse presager le pire pour la suite sachant que mes journees seront bien plus remplies

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007

  • It was not long before the press-agents of the dumb presager found a romancer willing to undertake the task that Defoe neglected.

    The Life and Romances of Mrs Eliza Haywood Whicher, George Frisbie 1915

  • It took Ken Russell decades to become a cinematic enfant terrible and a presager of punk.

    News 2011

  • If Wallinger's white horse has any relevance at all, it is as a presager of death, as pale horses tend to be in northern mythologies.

    The Guardian World News 2009

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