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forebode

verb
/fɔːˈbəʊd/

Etymology

From Middle English foreboden, from Old English forebodian, equivalent to fore- + bode.

  1. inherited from forebodian
  2. inherited from foreboden

Definitions

  1. To predict a future event

    To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).

    • There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart.

  2. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune)

    To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.

    • Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Caesar's death.
    • Here sits he shaping wings to fly: / His heart forebodes a mystery: / He names the name Eternity.

  3. prognostication

    prognostication; presage

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at forebode. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at forebode. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at forebode

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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