portents in English

noun

1

a sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen.

they believed that wild birds in the house were portents of death

synonyms: omen, sign, signal, token, forewarning, warning, danger sign, foreshadowing, prediction, forecast, prophecy, harbinger, augury, auspice, presage, writing on the wall, indication, hint, foretoken

2

an exceptional or wonderful person or thing.

what portent can be greater than a pious notary?

noun

omen, sign, signal, token, forewarning, warning, danger sign, foreshadowing, prediction, forecast, prophecy, harbinger, augury, auspice, presage, writing on the wall, indication, hint, foretoken
significance, importance, import, consequence, meaning, weight, moment
prognostication, omen, prodigy, prognostic, presage

Use "portents" in a sentence

1. Its steel shod hooves sent sparks off the stones, like portents.

2. 17 The portents are not what one would call auspicious.

3. I know the portents of my new habitat, I have been learning my local lore.

4. “Through the hands of the apostles many signs and portents continued to occur among the people,” states Acts 5:12.

5. Biblical writings, which lie at the root of Western culture, make numerous mention of portents in the heavens.

6. The general opinion was that comets were immaterial, spiritual portents sent by the Creator as warnings about impending momentous events.

7. Balder's birth was not celebrated, as Odin received dreams and portents that foretold Balder's role as the catalyst for Ragnarok.

8. Sometimes you get signs and portents which the quacks can't fathom, but which go down like markers for middle-age.

9. "A visionary storyteller," as Charles Simic has called her, Thylias Moss is a true Betokener, one who gives us signs and portents

10. (2 Corinthians 11:14) He can even fabricate portents and then make them come true, deceiving onlookers into thinking that the omen is from God.

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12. Alfonso, terrified by a series of portents, as well as unusual dreams, abdicated in favour of his son, Ferdinand or Ferrandino, and fled, entering a Sicilian monastery.

13. "In this year terrible portents appeared over Northumbria and sadly Affrightened the inhabitants: there were exceptional flashes of lightning, and firey dragons were seen flying in the air.

14. Augures were specialists assisting magistrates in taking the auspices and advising the Senate and the magistrates on various aspects of divination, not the least of which was the proper handling of prodigies and portents