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preboding en · NOUN
Meanings
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(archaic, uncountable) Synonym of foreboding.
Thus, when with a nervous preboding Henry took up the "Watchman," […] he turned quite sick at heart to find the lying verdict run as follows […]
1844, Martin Farquhar Tupper, Heart, page 106:It was with a pang of preboding that his nearest friends heard him announce, while he was doing what proved to be his last work for the press, that he was "going to kill Mrs. Partington."
1891, The New England Magazine, page 433:
Synonyms
foreboding