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Omen vs. Presage — What's the Difference?

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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