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bodement

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[bohd-muhnt] / ˈboʊd mənt /

noun

  1. a foreboding or omen; presentiment.

  2. a prophecy or prediction.

Etymology

Origin of bodement

First recorded in 1595–1605; bode 1 + -ment

Example Sentences

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List, then, as I shall speak: and grant the dreams Whose two-fold apparition I to-night Have seen, if good their bodement, be fulfilled: If hostile, turn their influence on my foes.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

That clinging mist seemed of evil bodement for our expedition.

From The Roof of France by Betham-Edwards, Matilda

I am silent: this however is an evil bodement.

From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides

Upon the whole he was not without a bodement that it would be folly to press on.

From The Well-Beloved by Hardy, Thomas

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