augury
2
9.9
- noun
- /ˈɔːɡəri/
- Literature
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augurio
- The dark clouds gathering overhead were an augury of the storm to come.
Slights fights envy on we that turns the ordinary into augury and the predictable into premonition.
- Slights fights envy on we that turns the ordinary into augury and the predictable into premonition.
Examples
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The slight bothered me and was an eerie augury.
Academic text (2008) -
People whispered that all the auguries and prophecies were coming from the old man himself, from the Sampolne Rebbe.
Fiction book (1995) -
The foot was still in the same position, an augury of death.
Fiction book (2001) -
For her to have offered me this information was itself a good augury.
Fiction book (1994) -
What follows here is an augury that I hope proves false.
Academic text (2000) -
But there are grounds to hope, on the basis of trends already underway, that the auguries for the future are, on balance, favorable to a democratic China.
Academic text (1992) -
Friend, these were days of comets in the air, various auguries, marvellous tempests, sights on the sea.
Academic text (2015) -
Inman stared down for some time at the pattern the drops made to see if it held significance in the direction of augury, for he knew he needed aid, no matter from what strange fount it arose.
Fiction book (1997) -
Less desperately, I mentioned the analogy I often drew between our neighbor and my father, my father's death, and the auguries prefiguring the sort of death I read were waiting for our neighbor.
Fiction book (2000) -
Augury was known to Byzantines from antique sources like Homer's Odyssey (2.145-88) and Iliad (1.78-84).
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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3.2
An event that shows something is happening or will happen
91
4.9
A sign or event that people think shows what will happen next
54
1.6
Something that shows there may be danger or a problem
10
8.7
A sign that something important, often bad, will happen
3
5.6
A sign or notice that something bad will happen
1
8.7
A sign or feeling that something bad will happen
1
9.9
A sign people believe shows what will happen or what to do
A sign that something important will happen soon
A sign that something will happen in the future
How Predictive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Augury comes from the Latin word augur, a priest who watched the flight of birds and other small events to find a 'sign' about what might happen. So an augury is a 'sign' people used 'to predict' the future.