Omen vs. Presage — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Omen and Presage
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Omen
An omen (also called portent or presage) is a phenomenon that is believed to foretell the future, often signifying the advent of change. It was commonly believed in ancient times, and still believed by some today, that omens bring divine messages from the gods.These omens include natural phenomena, for example an eclipse, abnormal births of animals (especially humans) and behaviour of the sacrificial lamb on its way to the slaughter.
Presage
An indication or warning of a future occurrence; an omen.
Omen
An event regarded as a portent of good or evil
A rise in imports might be an omen of recovery
The ghost's appearance was an ill omen
Presage
A feeling or intuition of what is going to occur; a presentiment.
Omen
A phenomenon supposed to portend good or evil; a prophetic sign.
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Presage
Prophetic significance or meaning.
Omen
Prognostication; portent
Birds of ill omen.
Presage
(Archaic) A prediction.
Omen
To be a prophetic sign of; portend.
Presage
To indicate or warn of in advance; portend.
Omen
Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury.
The ghost's appearance was an ill omen.
A rise in imports might be an omen of economic recovery.
The egg has, during the span of history, represented mystery, magic, medicine, food and omen.
Presage
To have a presentiment of.
Omen
A thing of prophetic significance.
A sign of ill omen.
Presage
To foretell or predict.
Omen
(transitive) To be an omen of.
Presage
To make or utter a prediction.
Omen
(intransitive) To divine or predict from omens.
Presage
A warning of a future event; an omen.
Omen
An occurrence supposed to portend, or show the character of, some future event; any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; a foreboding; a presage; an augury.
Bid go with evil omen, and the brandOf infamy upon my name.
Presage
An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
Omen
To divine or to foreshow by signs or portents; to have omens or premonitions regarding; to predict; to augur; as, to omen ill of an enterprise.
The yet unknown verdict, of which, however, all omened the tragical contents.
Presage
(transitive) To predict or foretell something.
Omen
A sign of something about to happen;
He looked for an omen before going into battle
Presage
(intransitive) To make a prediction.
Omen
Indicate by signs;
These signs bode bad news
Presage
(transitive) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
Presage
Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.
Presage
Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment.
If there be aught of presage in the mind.
Presage
To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
Presage
To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.
My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
Presage
To form or utter a prediction; - sometimes used with of.
Presage
A foreboding about what is about to happen
Presage
A sign of something about to happen;
He looked for an omen before going into battle
Presage
Indicate by signs;
These signs bode bad news
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