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portend

verb
/pɔːˈtɛnd/UK/pɔɹˈtɛnd/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin portendere (“to foretell”), from por- (“forward”) + tendere (“to stretch”).

  1. borrowed from portendere

Definitions

  1. To serve as a warning or omen of.

    • A kingdom they portend thee, but what kingdom, / Real or allegoric, I discern not; Nor when: eternal sure--as without end,

  2. To signify

    To signify; to denote.

    • Let it be known that the Rapture portends the End of Days.
    • How alive these poems are with the visual specifics of what he so closely observes, how full of elegance, terror and hope. They portend a poet of major craft, of deep feeling, and of fine intelligence.

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Derived

portender, portention, portendment

Vish — recursive loop

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

9 hops · closes at portend

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA