PORTENT

portent. Portent, n. an omen or token of ill, sign, prodigy

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Por‐tent″ (?; 277), n. [[L. portentum. See Portend.]] That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign. Shak. My loss by dire portents the god foretold. Dryden.